To Rule

Genesis 1 cont’d:

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, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

Now we come to the sixth day, where God made mankind.  And he decides to makes us in his image, his likeness – why?  So that we might rule over the created creatures he has just made and placed on the earth.

Isn’t that interesting?  In order to rule over things of this earth, man needed to reflect and be like his Creator.  In order to dominate and take charge of the things on the ground, man needed to be made in the image of the Creator.

And so God made us.

In his image.

In his likeness.

So that we can rule over earthly things.

It seems we have come to allow ourselves to be ruled by all earthly things, including greed, envy, competition, desire, lust, and we also fear everything on earth.  Maybe we have forgotten why we were created and who it is we look like, and how it is that we have authority and dominion over what flies above our heads and walks besides us here on earth.

This is something to think about and to then realize the potential of knowing whose image we bear.