relationships (Genesis 5:1-5) In the Likeness of God

(Genesis 5:1-5)  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, He made him in the likeness of God. 2 He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.

3 When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth. 4 Then the days of Adam after he became the father of Seth were eight hundred years, and he had other sons and daughters. 5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.

TODAY'S THOUGHTS AND MEDITATION:

God created man and woman in His image and likeness, and then blessed them, wanting them to be fruitful and multiply, as well as to have a personal relationship with Him.  But when Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they brought sin and death into the world, which separates people from the Lord.  Not only that, but because of sin, we will struggle with all other relationships.

While we were still created in God's image, when we are born, we are not like Him, we take on the likeness of our parents which - since the fall of man - includes a sinful nature.  In order to take on God's likeness, we must be born again into His family by believing and trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ.  It is only in this way that we can have the blessings which come from a relationship for which we were created, to be able to call the sovereign God our heavenly Father.

(Romans 8:1-4) Therefore there is now no condemnation at all for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

(1 Peter 1:3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

(1 Peter 1:23) for you have been born again not of seed which is perishable, but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God. 

(Ephesians 4:23-24) and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

(Romans 8:15) For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons and daughters by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”