What Image are you carrying?

Scriptural Highlight: (Genesis 5:3) - "When Adam had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth."

Our scriptural highlight for today is about the generations of Adam after creation. Reading down from verses 1 and  2 of this Genesis chapter 5, we can see that when God created man, he made him in the likeness of God. Man was made in God's image; and as God's image was meant to reproduce God's image as well. You can say that man was god on earth. Man operated in a realm higher than any other creature. Man was in a class of his own. Man remained God's image until he disobeyed God.

From our scriptural highlight today, what we see is that when Abraham had lived 130 years, he fathered a son in his own likeness, after his image. What happened to the image and likeness of God in which he was created? It has been lost through sin. The nature he now carried was his own image and not God's.  His own offspring took after his own nature.

Lessons:

1. Who you are is who you produce: There are no dry lands, there are only dry men. If you take a fruitful man to a barren land, he converts the barren land to fruitful land. But take a man from the slum to the palace without destroying slum attitude in him, he will turn the palace to slum.
2. When we loose God's presence, we begin to struggle like men. But when we secure God's presence, little efforts produce great results. Example is Isaac in Genesis 26: 1-5, 12 who sowed in a time of drought when people were afraid to sow for lack of rain, and reaped in that same year of drought, hundred folds.

Good News:
Man lost the image of God in the garden of Eden but God promised to Restore man. He promised that in Abraham's Seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed (Genesis 22:8). And that Seed is Jesus Christ who came and died on the cross to redeem man from death; to restore man back to the lost glory (image).
Any one that receives Jesus Christ receives God's likeness and image. And once you receive the image of God, you stop producing after the flesh and start reproducing after God's spirit. So first, you ask yourself, what image am I carrying?