26Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
God created mankind last, but not least. He took center stage when He created us! I envision all of the animals of the planet gathering around as God began to create a being that the planet had not yet seen. We were His prized creation! There is an Angel that even inquired about this "man" that God had created (Hebrews 2:5-7 and Psalm 8). The angel says in Psalm 8:5,
5Yet You have made him a little lower than God, And You crown him with glory and majesty!
We were created just below God, and above the angels! Get a hold of this: God created us with His own hands for the sole purpose of ruling over the world! I am going to let this sink in. Meditate on how special we are to Him. How beautiful we are to Him. How much He loves and cares about His most prized creation. I will continue on this with Part 2 on Friday.
Sidebar - Throughout the story of creation in the New King James Version, the Word always states that God created. When it comes to man, God says, "Let Us make man." This was the only thing He called upon the entire Trinity to create! This shows how original and completely different our design was from anything He had created before. Also, we were the only creation created in His image. Which explains why we are a three part being, Body, Mind and Soul.
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