HIMPower Magazine August 2015 | Page 29

Inspiration Woman: Made in the Image of God by Betty Parker 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,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. —Genesis 1:26–27 M ale and female he created them. If we are all—male and female—created in the image and likeness of God, then what is God like? Since He is a spirit and there is no physical image of Him, then our likeness of Him must be in who we are and how we are—not in how we look. The Word says we are like Him, not that we look like Him. Let’s get this point out of the way first. Gender doesn’t matter, race doesn’t matter, body type doesn’t matter, economic level doesn’t matter. What we look like doesn’t matter. Too much www.pneupathforliving.com  29