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The Image of God

Psalms 139: 13-14

To hold a newborn baby is pure delight, particularly when it is your own flesh and blood. As I held granddaughter, Lauren, I marveled at her tiny little feet and perfectly formed nose. One of our first questions was, "Who does she look like?" Was she a Hertzler, Yoder, Heatwole or Gingerich? We compared her to her older sister, Emily, and the baby pictures of my children.

For nine months the Master Creator had been knitting tiny Lauren together in the sanctuary of her mother’s womb, in secret! Yes, modern medicine has allowed us to see and know many "secrets" never before known to man: sex of baby, status of health, size, weight, etc., but no test has yet revealed personality, aptitude, abilities, or speech intonation. The Psalmist in chapter 139 mentions inward parts, frame and substance. "Your eyes saw my substance. . . ." The creator God knew every detail about this baby, even the "secret" things. And God even started a "baby book." ". . .and in your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them."

When God knelt in the dirt to form the first man, He said, "Let us make man in OUR image, according to OUR likeness." And scriptures says, "So God created man in His own image. . . " (Genesis 1:26). Can we somehow grasp the picture here of God lovingly and gently caressing and cooing over that lump of dirt until it was just right? And then as He gazed on what He had just created, He said, "It is good." Pure delight!

I will praise You, for You have fearfully and wonderfully made me.

By Pat Hertzler