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A prayer for God's design by Matt Chandler.

Then God said, let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness. So God

created mankind in his own image. In the image of God he created them, male and

female he created them, male and female he created them.

Genesis 1 26 to 27.

In this passage, we get what theologians have called for a few millennia, the Imago Day, the image of God.

And the idea that men and women are different from all of creation because we have been made

in the image of God. The Imago Day is God's investment in humanity of godlike

glory and moral capacity to reign and rule the Earth as his representatives. This is what sets us apart. What are the implications of the

Imago Day? There is an intrinsic human dignity that places us above

everything else in the creative order. We have an intrinsic value because of the image God has given to us.

It's not a functional thing as much as a gift from God, and it shapes how we view humanity.

Those we live side by side with and those will never meet.

Yet we forget this amazing truth and sin messes us up and we treat each other in ways that

must break God's heart.

What if we could really grasp that we have intrinsic value

because we are made in the image of God?

The difference would be incredible.

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