The Image of God

What does God look like?

When you consider the Almighty, what images come into your mind? Clouds? Sunlight? An old man with lots of white hair? A book?

Take a moment.

Take another moment.

Of many images that come to my mind, one of them is usually not Christians. I am used to seeing God as a great ideal - the perfect Christ, or a seperate-from-the-world spirit. But not the otherwise mundane people sitting around me in church. We are there to think about God, to sing to God, to pray to God, to learn about God. But it should be more than that.

We are there to be God.

Not that we transform ourselves into divinity - not that I myself am actually God, or that any person around me is. But the Church is the body - the flesh - of God in the world today. Why would God do such a thing? Why would he entrust his image to us - lustful, murderous, prideful creatures of dust?

1) To demonstrate the power of God to transform and change.
2) To grant us a share of God's work - the redemption of the cosmos.
3) Because it is utterly unexpected.

Honestly? I don't understand. I'm sometimes not even grateful. Because, as has been stated before and will be stated again - in this life, to some people, I will be the face of God.