Created in God’s Image

 

 

Created in God’s Image

And likened to Him

Now flawed by the fall

Because of Adam’s sin.

 

Fashioned from the earth

God breathed into him life

Felled by Satan’s deception

The beginning of all strife.

 

Hopeless and helpless

Man wandered the earth

But God had a plan

To give him a new birth.

 

In Genesis three fifteen

God first signaled this plan

To usher in a new beginning

And to redeem fallen man.

 

His Son would come to earth

To be be born of a virgin

Implanted by the Holy Spirit

And totally without sin.

 

 

He lived among the people

Teaching the way of the Lord

His was the perfect way

He was the Living Word.

 

The people were overawed

By his many miracles

And even teachers of the law

Were puzzled by his parables.

 

They questioned him often

At times they even ridiculed

But Jesus would not be tempted

To be the devil’s tool.

 

Finally they crucified him

Achieving the Father’s plan

That one would pay the price

For the sins of fallen man.

 

He who was without sin

Died the death of sinful man

To take away sin’s scourge

And fulfil God’s redemptive plan.

 

His life was the example

Of how everyone should live

And he is now the object

The focus we should give.

 

Thus created in God’s image

Man the crowning creation

But saved to conform to Jesus

The purpose of our salvation.

 

 

For whom God foreknew

Them He also predestinate

To conform to the image of His Son

And as His sons we now relate.

 

Be not conformed to this world

But be renewed in the mind

So that as the world looks on

Jesus’ image they would easily find.

 

Stewart Russell © 2016