Restored Image
…As you have heard from the beginning, his command is that you walk in love.
2 John 1:6
The reason why the Bible says we are to walk in love is because that’s what God created us to do. He’s only commanding us to be what we were always supposed to be. He made us in his image and likeness and he is love. We are made to be love. Through sin, we became self centered, were separated and died to his image, but through Christ we are united and alive in his image.
“God has united you with Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us right with God; he made us pure and holy, and he freed us from sin.” 1 Corinthians 1:30
“…You have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” Colossians 3:10
What Christ finished on the cross made the way to restore us to God and be transformed back into his image. Because of his grace we can be empowered to a life of obedience.
“Much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!” Romans 5:17
We must set our minds on this… and ask God to reveal to our hearts…
- What does it mean now that I’m restored in Christ?
- How can I practically live that out?