Imago Dei

Image of God

Last week we bought some new baby chicks

It’s always fun adding new animals to our farm

We’ve brought home chickens and ducks and dogs and cats

And it’s always exciting!

The girls love them. Essie, my middle child, has spent just about every day with those chicks.

They’re so small and cute

I remember another day that we brought something home for the first time

It was around July 5th, 2015

I remember the day because that was a day I spent at the hospital

It was the day my wife went into labor and we had our first baby girl, Wren

I had grown up on a farm, still kind of do.

I’ve watched animals birthed

I’ve gone and picked out baby animals

I’ve held them, fed them, cared for them

But none of them come close in comparison to the moment they put wren in my arms

It was a moment that’s hard to put into words

Part of it was because she was mine

that I helped create her

Part of it was because she was human

She was like me

And therefore she was like God

When they handed me my daughter for the first time

In my hands I was holding the “imago Dei.”

I was holding the very “image of God.”

Scripture tells us that Wren was made in the image of God

It tells us that I was made in the image of God and that you were made in the image of God

Let’’s go back to the very beginning of human existence and take a look so you can see what I mean

Genesis 1:26–27 NIV

26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” 27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.