Live Up To Your Image

Guard your tongue; keep pure, whose image you are,
The place you fill; what divine role assigned!
You are God's image; sin, His image mar.
Is your model pure, as He who designed?
Whence came your tyranny and vulgar speech?
He does not steal like you, or practice lust;
Come back to your first love, and mend your ways,
Lest others His name's held in disdain!
He's the Rock of Ages, and Lord of Days,
And willing all men from death to redeem!
Hold your tongue; consider who you portray,
That men see you righteous, and learn His way!

Most people do not realize or appreciate the significance of the honor paid each individual by God when He created each in His own image. Of all living things---animals, fish, birds, mammals, plants, trees, insects, millions of different species---just one, man, was made like God. That fact is significant. If nature developed and evolved by the laws of chance, the odds of that happening would be astronomically high against it. In fact He created us in the same form that His Son Jesus would take at His birth. What an honor. Each person should recognize the honor and let it guide him in ways that would bring honor and glory to God rather than criticism and derision.

The human race in general ignores the Creator. Most seem to believe there is no Creator, that all development evolved by chance as nature interacted, and Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. I find no fault with Darwinism working in different life species so long as the result was commanded by God.

The overwhelming wickedness of the world is an insult to God, inserted by Satan, who has contested God for authority since before the world was created 13.7 billion years ago; any man, believer or not ought to live in a way that does not discredit God. Adolf Hitler was a creation of God; his unspeakable cruelties inspires people to look at God, even if they dont't believe He exists, and say, "Look what God did!", with a sneer. A man ought to live in such a way as to leave a reputation that the world is a better place because of his life in it. Even a disbeliever should do that.