Text:
Genesis 1:27 (ESV)
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
Observation:
What is your reaction to this declaration in the book of beginnings? The Psalmist helps me to express my feelings in these words.
Psalm 139:14 (ESV)
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
However, there is a thief in the world that God created, and this is also recorded in Genesis. This is what Satan said to Eve and Adam.
Genesis 3:5 (ESV)
5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
God had already created Adam and Eve in His image. But, the enemy of God lied and deceived them.
Notice what God has given to His redeemed people.
2 Peter 1:3 (HCSB)
3 His divine power has given us everything required for life and godliness through the knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and goodness.
Are you one of God’s divinely redeemed children? If so, notice how blessed you are in Christ. Do you feel this rich in spiritual blessings?
Ephesians 1:3-6 (HCSB)
3 Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
4 For He chose us in Him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love
5 He predestined us to be adopted through Jesus Christ for Himself, according to His favor and will,
6 to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.
Wow! O, how blessed we are in Christ. We are fearfully made, and redeemed from the fall of mankind. Don’t allow the enemy to deceive you. Draw near to God, and live in His presence.
Surely, God is worthy of our praise, and we are privileged to be able to enter the throne room of God to offer our praise, and thanksgiving to Him.
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be Your name. Father, we bow our knee, and offer to You from our hearts the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. And, we do this in mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
Hebrews 13:15 (HCSB)
15 Therefore, through Him let us continually offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, that is, the fruit of our lips that confess His name.
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Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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