Key Passages:

2 Corinthians 4:7

Galatians 2:20

In our last post, we touched on the truth that humans are made in God’s image; yet though possessing the potential to live as ‘gods’ (not to be worshipped, but empowered of the Most High to do the unusual and/or miraculous), too many die like mere men.

To avoid this fate, our loving Father calls us to embrace our identity in Him and bear His image or, His likeness, His essence.

But what does this mean?

Think of what happens when God shows up in a place or situation. Heaven invades earth’s reality. Walls come down. Mountains move. The dead live. The sick are healed. Chains are shattered. Strongholds are destroyed.

These and more can and should happen when humans live up to our God given identity and bear His image. Yet we must never forget that “we have this treasure in jars of clay (earthen vessels) to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us” (2 Corinthians 4:7).

The secret of all those faith heroes who performed amazing deeds that are still remembered centuries later is this: Decrease in the flesh so that God may increase in the Spirit through us.

This is possible only when “[We] have been crucified with Christ and no longer live, but Christ lives in [us]. The lives [we] now live in the body, [we] live by faith in the Son of God, who loved [us] and gave himself for [us]” (Galatians 2:20)

But how did they accomplish this decrease in the flesh?

Let’s find out as we examine a few over our next several posts.

Be blessed!

Remi