God put this word on my heart;"Image".As always I let Him show me what He wants us to know.The fact of the matters is we live in a world filled with images.These images mainly put our focus on ourselves and others.None of them really help us to focus on God!! The first thing God did when He created us was to give us an image. He loved us enough to give us "His own" image!! Now that was awesome,yet we have ran away from that image.Check this out...
This world has created so many images for us to be like.Hollywood gives us an image of what beauty and manliness should look like. They take a person and create a image for them and then call them Stars.So many people dream and want to become Stars because of their image.But is that image truly the image of God?
Growing up I dreamed of being like Bob Hayes of the Dallas Cowboys. Now I know I'm aging myself but to God be the glory!(smile)My parents bought me a whole uniform with jersey #22 and I thought I was all that and more!From then on I was hooked on Sports Stars and wanted to be like them.Television ads even told us we should be like "Mike",but is that image truly the image of God?
Society has put certain images before us that tell us if we have made it or not.I remember the sitcom "The Jefferson's" and the opening song "Moving on up to the Eastside"!! The "Eastside" would have been like any "side" but for the image it created.It is an image we all want to have, an image that says I've made it. I have a nice home,I have a luxury car or two or three. Don't get me wrong I believe God wants us to get to the "Eastside" but what image are we giving?Do we remember that there are still others back there on the "other" side?
There are so many images that we can choose to live by. Youngsters and their images of Rappers and Rockstars and even Drug dealers.Even in our Churches we sometimes find that we have to conform to certain "images". We have to dress a certain way and even talk a certain way to be accepted.Some of us even live in unhappy marriages just to keep up our images. Keeping up an image is hard because images are always changing!!There are always going to be new Stars,newer homes and cars and dress styles.Images in this world never stay the same.
That's what is so good about our God!! His image never has and never will change on us!! I don't need no Hollywood image because I know God's image is better! I dont need no Sport Star image when I know I serve a God that made every Star in the universe! I don't care what society thinks about me as long as I have Jesus on my side!! You don't KNOW what the Lord has done for me!!!There are times I don't reflect His image but thanks be to God for giving me a chance to be like Him!!There should be a television ad like this:"Being like Mike is ok,but being like God is so much BETTER!"It's truly time for us to put on the image of God, it is truly the "image" He wants us to live by.
"Father,let our lives be a reflection of you.We know this world is filled with so many images that tend to draw us away from you and put our focus on them.Forgive us when we do things to tarnish your image. We want to thank you for that image right now,in JESUS mighty name,AMEN!!!
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