THE IMAGE OF THE KING

Proverbs 14:21
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth:
But he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.

This passage is so rich I don’t know if I can give it justice in my daily few words.

We are created in the image of the Creator. We are the representation of the King on earth. Being created by the commandment of His mouth, we literally are the ‘spitting’ image of our Father. When we see out brother (sister), the fear of God should enter in us as if it were someone bearing the seal and authority of the King.

When a king of flesh and blood conquers a country he puts up portraits and statues of himself. He mints coins with his image. After a while, when the people of the country are not happy with him anymore, they overturn his portraits, break his statues and invalidate his coins. They show their contempt by breaking, spoiling and defacing anything that bears the image of the King.

We see it happen around the world. People who hate the U.S.A. vent their anger by burning ephygies (images) of the President or of our flag. That is man’s way to reduce his enemies. So, too, one who sheds blood, he reduces the image of the King as it is written (Genesis 9:6): "One who spills a man's blood... for in the image of G-d He made man."

One thing I have noticed while studying biblical history and principles is that the Father is always on the side of the victim. The conflict may involve a righteous person against another righteous person. It may involve a righteous person against an unrighteous person. Maybe it is about an unrighteous person against a righteous person. It may also involve an unrighteous person against another unrighteous persons. Whatever the elements are, the Father is always on the side of the victim.

These principles should create the fear of God in us about despising, spoiling, defacing and reducing another human being made in the image of the King in any way shape or form.

No human being is accountable to another, but we are all accountable to God.