“Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness”…So God CREATED MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE; (tselem: like a shadow) in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” (Gen. 1:26-27)
The Hebrew word for shadow (tsel) comes out of the word tselem, and we certainly don’t look like shadows, but our shadow behaves exactly like we do. If we jump, so does our shadow; if we wave, our shadow must wave as well. It is an exact replica, a mirrored image of who and what we are. We don’t look like GOD, but WE ARE CREATED TO BEHAVE LIKE GOD.
This is for you: Stephanie, Ethan, Camden, Olivia, Aidan, Landon, Kinsley, Annika, Kaleigh, Kate, Gavin…