THE IMAGE OF GOD

November 13

Psalms 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.

Have you ever met a man who trusts in the Lord? Have you ever met someone who has inner peace in spite of anguish and tribulation? Have you ever seen one who is assured of the loving care and grace of his God, when all the while in need himself? This sort of man is easy to recognize, because this sort of man is blessed. He is blessed because he has tasted that the Lord is good. One who lives in such a state of blessedness does not need to advertise his faith in any tangible way for people to see it. He does not need to wear jewelry that announces his beliefs. He does not need a bumper sticker to let the world know that he is ‘in the way’. His face, his eyes, his countenance and his words of praise are the constant unshakable witnesses of his blessedness.

When a man has tasted of the Lord, when he has received of His bounty, spiritual or physical, when his soul had been nourished, satisfied and filled with the sustenance from the tree of life, a glow of inner beauty emanates from his eyes, peace vibrates from his inner being and an assurance of pure love seems to flow from his visage. It is because of these that one may ask him “the reason of the hope” that is within him 1 Peter 3:15.

May we at all times, as the children of the Most-High God, reflect his image to the world. May we be so full of his spirit that we portray his peace, his love, his care his grace in our daily countenance and conversation.

Psalms 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.