The world is a better place because you are in it!!
God declared that over you the very moment He breathed life into Adam and Eve.
Genesis chapter 1 brings us the creation story. The story of how our world came to be and how we came to be on it.
At the end of day 1 (Genesis 1:4) He looked at everything He created and He said it was good.
At the end of day 2 (Genesis 1:10) He looked at everything He created and He said it was good.
At the end of day 3 (Genesis 1:12) He looked at everything He created and He said it was good.
At the end of day 4 (Genesis 1:18) He looked at everything He created and He said it was good.
At the end of day 5 (Genesis 1:21) He looked at everything He created and He said it was good.
At the BEGINNING of day 6 (Genesis 1:25) He looked at everything He created and He said it was good.
At the END of day 6 (Genesis 1:31) He looked at YOU and He said it was VERY GOOD.
In one days time His opinion of His creation went from just good to very good.
And all because He created YOU!!
In Genesis 1:26-28 He decided that this good world He created needed something more; It needed YOU! So He made you to look like Him.
26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
He looks at this good world He created and sees His fingerprints but then He looks at you and sees His face.
Just like a newborn baby is a reflection of its parents, we are a reflection of the Father.
When people look at you do they see His face?
Do they see His love, His joy, His peace, His patience, His gentleness, His goodness, His faith, His gentleness, His temperance?
God see’s it all and He see’s you and He calls it beautiful!