God's Image in You
Devotions:
“And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:4 KJV
Our imagination is so important. It is God given and it really controls how we see ourselves and thus how we act. For most people this inside image has been created by Satan and causes us to live defeated lives. We need to paint the picture that our Heavenly Father has of us. One of the ways to do this is to meditate on the word of God about who we are and what we can do in Christ. The objective of meditation is to create the picture of the truth from the word of God and to replace the picture that Satan has used the world to press upon us. He has used his agents to fracture us and to devastate our image of ourself. He makes us feel dirty and unworthy and unloved. As we perceive that God does not love us then we act that way.
In the new creation we have been made right with God and holy. We may not act like that and we will not until we believe what God has done in us. We were healed in Jesus, but we will not receive our healing until we see ourselves as already healed by the stripe of Jesus. We are prosperous and have the blessings of Abraham but we will not walk in the prosperity until we know and see ourselves as redeemed from the curse of the law by Jesus hanging on the tree so that the blessing of Abraham has come upon us and Jesus became poor so that we might become rich, 2 Corinthians 8:9.
When we find ourselves acting in a way that we know is not acceptable and we do not want to do then we must look at the picture that is in our heart and ask where does it not line up with the picture that God has of us.
Our beliefs, our self image in our imagination controls our actions. When we try to just manipulate our actions with our changing our beliefs about ourself then we are just doing behavior modification and are not truly being conformed to the image of Christ. Conformity comes from being in His presence and beholding Him, changed from glory to glory.