God created everything there is--the heavens, earth, plants, and animals. When God finished creating the earth, He then chose to make people in His image. The phase "Let us make human beings in our image" in verse 26 does not mean that God created us exactly like Himself, especially in a physical sense. Instead, we are reflections of God's glory. We can reflect His characteristics like love, patience, forgiveness, kindness, and faithfulness.
Our worth is not defined by possessions, achievements, physical attractiveness, or popularity. Instead, it is based on knowing that God created us in His likeness. Knowing that you are a person of infinite worth gives you the freedom to love God, know Him personally, and make a valuable contribution to the lives of those around you.
Here are Satan's Plan for us Gen 3
Doubt- Makes you questions God's word and His goodness
Discouragement- Makes you look at your problems rather than at God
Diversion- Make the wrong things seem attractive so you want them more than the right things
Defeat- Makes you feel like a failure, so you don't even try
Delay- Makes you put off doing something, so it never gets done.
God wants people who are free to sin to choose instead to trust and love Him.
God longs to speak to his people, but many times we don't look for Him to speak to us or to act. Our ears are turned elsewhere. Or, we expect Him to speak to us in a certain way. Want to hear from God? Be expectant. Watch and wait. Luke 4:16-19
Luke 8:11-15
Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. A parable: A seed is God's word. A seed that falls on a foot path gets eaten by birds, this represents those who hear the message, only to have the devil come and take it away from their hearts and prevent them from believing and being saved.
The seed that falls on the rock soil grows but then dies from lack of moisture, this represents those who hear the message and receive it with joy. But since they don't have deep roots, they believe for a while, then they fall away when they face temptation.
The seed that fell among the thorns grew but was chocked out, this represents those who hear the message, but all too quickly the cares and riches and pleasures of this life crowd out the message. Therefore, they never grow into maturity.
The seed that fell on the good soil grew to hundred times more than was planted, this represents honest, good hearted people who hear God's word, cling to it, and patiently produce a huge harvest.
All this may seem like random verses from the Bible, but if you read carefully you will see that no matter how random something seems, they all come together as one. God has written the Bible so that we may learn about and know Him. He gives us stories to help us better understand that sinning won't save your life, and He also shows that no matter how much you sin or what you did, that as long as your ask Him for forgiveness and truly mean it in your heart, you will be saved. If you have a tendency to apologize just because you have too, don't do that when you ask for forgiveness from God. He knows your heart, so He will know if you truly mean it. When it comes to belief and faith in God is life and death. Choose Him and you will have life, choose Satan you will have death. Satan's way is usually the easy and fun way, read the temptation blog to help overcome temptation. Even though God's way may not seem fun or easy, but you will get joy out of it and be so much happier and blessed. I leave you with this verse:
2Tim 4:17-18
But the Lord stood with me and gave me strength so that I might preach the Good News (God's Word) in its entirety for all the Gentiles (everyone) to hear. And He rescued me from certain death. Yes, and the Lord will deliver me from every evil attack and will bring me safely into His heavenly Kingdom. All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
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