Being
Successful
Image
It should be clear to all of us that what we wear
And how we act portrays an image
The question is what does that image look like?
“The desires of the
flesh”
or
“The image of God”
???
Image
IMAGE, likeness, representation, to make something
visible.
Images they are all around us.
Images of physicals objects.
Images formed in our minds.
We see millions of images every day.
Digital marketing experts estimate that most
Americans are
exposed to around 4000 to 10,000 advertisement each
day.
Some images will have an impact at first glance,
others
impact us as we see the same thing over and over.
Every image has content.
Although some images are more memorable
than others, images stay with us.
We probably love computers that give us pictures or
images more than any of the other things on earth.
Look at how much time we spend looking
at a computer screen, or camera, or television.
What we see with our eyes affects our thinking.
The shapes of images shape our thinking.
After five days of creation God brings up this thing
of “image”.
On the sixth day of creation God created
mankind male and female in His Image.
God says…
“Let us make mankind in our
image.”
“Let us”, you and I know that us
means more than one.
Who was God refusing to?
In Hebrews 1:1-2…
We see God
the Father and the Son made the universe.
It was not just man that was made in the
image of God it was male and female.
See Genesis 1:27
After God had made male and female
He said it was “very good”.
Originally, we were perfectly designed by God.
When God created male and female in His image,
it was in that image they were to rule,
govern God’s earth and all He created.
Because we are almost 7000 years from the first man
and woman
and because of the growing sin problem over those
years
it is hard for us to see the image of God in men and
women.
I heard one person say…
“If God
created man in his own image,
I have no interest in meeting Him”
How sad!
If we want to
be successful in life we need
to give a lot of thought to our image.
We need to ask our self the question…
Do I look like God?
We are not statures, we clothe ourselves and are
expressive.
The Bible says put on Christ.
“Rather,
clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ,
and do not think about how to gratify the
desires of the flesh.”
Romans 13:14
We catch a glimpse of the dress code in Colossians
3:12…
“Therefore,
as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe
yourselves
with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”
It should be clear to all of us that what we
wear and how we act portrays an image.
The question is what does that image look like?
“The
desires of the flesh”
or
“The
image of God”
???
Scripture
Reading
Genesis 1 27-27
26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind
in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over
all the creatures that move along the ground.”
27 So God created mankind in his own
image,
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
in the image of God he created them;
male and female he created them.
