The creation story continues in these few short verses, as "God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
God blessed them, gave them dominion over everything else on the earth and encouraged them to multiply and populate the earth. Man and woman are God's crowning achievement in creation. The pinnacle of all his work. And so he sits back, surveys all that he has created and declares that it is very good.
On the days that life just heaps all kinds of ugly burdens on us and we aren't feeling all that great about who we are, can I just say that we should come back here and read the account of creation? Because God made us in his own image and then he declared us very good.
For just one day, let's not look in the mirror and pick out all our flaws. Let's not over analyze every word that comes out of our mouths and kick ourselves for self-perceived imperfections. And certainly let's not be critical of one another. God made us all. And regardless of the flaws we all have, we are made in his image.
And it was very good.
- Holly Barrett
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