Monday Message

Last week I looked at the word image and how I feel being made in the image of God works for us here on earth. The more I thought about it, the more I questioned how it is that we are made in God's image and yet we are all so vastly different? And then it hit me; Facets! Diamonds have many facets which are used to allow light to reflect and refract in pleasurable ways through the diamond. It is these facets that give diamonds their beauty. So maybe, instead of being a direct image of God, each of us is a facet of the image of God. In a diamond each facet looks upon the same space but displays it in different ways. Some facets are there to show light, some for colour, some for patches of contrast. Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. Each of us is an image of God, but we show a different facet. All of our different faces, voices, skills, talents and gifts are from the same God, but expressed in individual ways. Another examp...

Genesis literally means 'beginning'. It's fitting that it is the first book of the Bible. Over the next couple of Monday Messages, I want to take a look at some aspects of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 that have piqued my interest and will, I'm hoping, pique yours too. Today I want to look at the following passage: Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. The key part i'd like to focus on is the word 'image'. To me an image gives the sense of a photo or a painting; Something that shows a scene, person or object, but isn't in itself any of those things. The apitome of this ideal is the Rene Magritte painting ' Ceci n'est pas une pipe ' (This is not a pipe). The point of the words is to remind the viewer that the painting is an image of a pipe, no the pipe itself. And so, I believe, it is with ourselves. We are not God,but we are an image of Him on earth. This has a twofold responsibility: To re...