“ You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:22-24)


We are made in God’s image, not only intellectually and emotionally but also spiritually.  We can respond to His Spirit’s voice.  We can communicate with God.  No matter what the circumstances, we have the Spirit of God within us helping us and guiding us.  Not only are we created in God’s image, but we are created to be like God. 

“ We have not received the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us.  This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.  The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolish to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”  1 Corinthians 2: 12-14

Paul encouraged the new believers in Ephesus to pursue lives of righteousness and holiness, always doing good works as they accepted the responsibility of being heirs of God.  Because we are made in God’s image, we have the responsibility to live like His children and show God’s image to the world through our lives.