Genesis 1:26 God-Likeness Means Working Together

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Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.” 

    Here we see confirmed something that was only hinted at at the beginning of the chapter, that God is not a single individual working alone. He says “let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” God is one, yet God is also a plurality of personages. This fact also shows up in the likeness He creates: man is one, man is singular, yet referring to man God says “let them have dominion”. Man is also plural. You are made in the image and after the likeness of God, but you can never express that properly on your own. To be like God includes nothing of pride, and even less of selfishness. The image of God is no one-man show. To be like God means to work together, harmonize and cooperate, complement and augment, love and serve unselfishly. 

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Ezra James
The Word of God is bread from heaven. God sent it, but we must gather it, appreciate it, digest it, and live by it. These days it is increasingly scarce. Many are starving for it and don't know it because they keep feasting on bad bread that doesn't satisfy. But if we would learn to carefully gather up the fragments of the True, Heavenly Bread of Life, we would always enjoy a feast of crumbs, because even God's crumbs are miracles mighty to save (Mark 7:24-30). ESPAÑOL: La Palabra de Dios es pan del cielo. Dios lo envió, pero debemos recogerlo, apreciarlo, digerirlo y vivir por él. Hoy en día es cada vez más escaso. Muchos están muriendo de hambre por falta de él sin saberlo porque se alimentan de pan falso que no satisface. Pero si aprendiéramos a recoger cuidadosamente los fragmentos del Verdadero Pan Celestial, Pan de Vida, siempre disfrutaríamos de un banquete de migajas, porque hasta las migajas de Dios son milagros poderosos para salvar (Marcos 7:24-30).