Daisy Smith was busy cleaning house. Of course there wasn't a lot to clean but there was some laundry and as she went into Louie's room to put his clean clothes away she couldn't help but notice a rather forlorn looking, freckle faced, red headed boy sitting on his bed with a Bible in hand. “Hello there” Daisy said but got no response.
As she finished
putting Louie's clean clothes away she walked over and sat down
beside him. “Are you okay?” she asked but still Louie gave no
response. Next she tried waving her hands in front of his face but
still Louie didn't respond. “I'm going to tickle you if you don't
say something.” Daisy said next to which Louie giggled and said
“Alright”
“What has you so
preoccupied?” Daisy asked “Well,” Louie started to answer,
“Ever since the science fair I have been wondering, Does God have
freckles?” “Does God have freckles?” Daisy repeated wondering
what brought that on. “Yeah.” Louie said, “And what color is
He? Does he look like me or Barney? By the way, did you know Barney
now has freckles?”
“Why did you want
to ...” Daisy started to ask but finished her sentence with
“Barney doesn’t have freckles.” “He does now.” Louie said,
“And so do a lot more people thanks to Harold.” “Uhm,” Daisy
started to say, “Does this have something to do with the science
fair? Randy said he almost blew up the church working on some kind
of potion.”
“Since he
couldn’t make a potion that would take away evil,” Louie
answered, Daisy, “He tried making a potion that would make us more
like God.” “Not another potion.” Randy said sticking his head
in the door. “It tasted like banana soup.” Louie said lowering
his head and looking at the floor. “You mean you had some?” Daisy
said in surprise. “Lots of people were taking it.” Louie replied.
“And did people
become more like God?” Randy asked. “I’m not sure.” Louie
said looking up at Randy, “As for myself nothing happened. I don’t
feel any different. As for everybody else, well, they don’t appear
to be any more like God unless God has freckles.” “Freckles?”
Randy said a bit puzzled.
“Yeah,” Louie
piped up, “Everybody that was drinking the potion looks like me
now. They are covered with freckles.” After a slight pause, Louie
added, “So, does God have freckles?” “NO” Randy said. “Than
I guess the potion didn’t work.” Louie said After a long pause,
Louie asked “Would you like to hear how my science project did at
the fair?”
“I would love
to.” Daisy said “But I need to get some supper in the oven. Can
you tell me about it while I'm working?” “Uh, oh.” Louie said
when he heard that, “You might not want to use the oven for a
while. My experiment kind of, well it, uhm.” How about we all go
out to eat.” Randy piped in to which everyone readily agreed.
Many believe that
millions and billions of years ago a bunch of pond scum produced life
which mutated over time into human beings. If this were true we
would be nothing more than over sized mutations. Science shows us
that, that can't happen and God's word tells us it didn't happen.
God's word tells us that we were created in God's image.
When the LORD
God made the heavens and the earth, there were no plants or grain
growing on the earth, for the LORD God had not sent any rain. And no
one was there to cultivate the soil. But water came up out of the
ground and watered all the land. And the LORD God formed a man's body
from the dust of the ground and breathed into it the breath of life.
And the man became a living person. Then the LORD God planted a
garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had
created. … to tend and care for it. But the LORD God gave him this
warning: "You may freely eat any fruit in the garden except
fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat of
its fruit, you will surely die." And the LORD God said, "It
is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion who will
help him." … So the LORD God caused Adam to fall into a deep
sleep. He took one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place from which
he had taken it. Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib and
brought her to Adam. "At last!" Adam exclaimed. "She
is part of my own flesh and bone! She will be called `woman,' because
she was taken out of a man."
Genesis
2:4-25 (NLT)
Genesis
1:27 says God created man in his own image, in the image of God he
created him; male and female he created them. (ESV) Psalm
139:13-16 Tells of His creating us while in the womb For you
formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are
your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from
you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths
of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were
written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as
yet there were none of them. (ESV)
With
this in mind, How special might we be?
- Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." (ESV) .
- Matthew 10:30-31 God even knows how many hairs are on your head. So don’t be afraid. You are worth much more than many sparrows. (NCV)
- 1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. (ESV)
God
Himself does not have a body, Jesus tells us in the New Testament
that He is spirit but He did take on a body in Jesus and Jesus tells
us that if we've seen Him we've seen God. And while God may not have
a body like us we do have a spirit, we have a part of us that is not
physical but more like God, a part we don't really see and all to
often forget exists. We need to remember that we are God's creation.
Here's
Something To Ponder
- Do you see yourself and those around you as being created in God's image?
- Are you letting God's image be seen in you?
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