Looking Like JesusSample

Become recognizable again!

Yesterday we discovered that God created man to be like Him. We know that in paradise this all went wrong. When Adam and Eve sinned they no longer looked exactly like God, for He is without sin. They no longer looked like they were supposed to.  They had become unrecognizable.

One quick look at this world will show you people very often don’t even look a little bit like God anymore. God's perfect plan seemed to have failed. But God had an even more beautiful restoration plan. His name is Jesus.

Jesus came to earth as the perfect image of God. He lived without fault. Everybody that saw Jesus also saw the Father. After sin, the first Adam no longer looked like he was supposed to, but Jesus look exactly like He was meant to be. Jesus gave us the perfect example to look exactly like God. 

Jesus showed us God's perfect love by giving His life for us. He died so that we could receive forgiveness for all our sins. But that is not the only thing.

Isaiah describes in the Old Testament how the Messiah should suffer. Isaiah 52:14 says: "But many were amazed when they saw him. His face was so disfigured he seemed hardly human, and from his appearance, one would scarcely know he was a man." Jesus was so much abused during his sufferings that He had become completely unrecognizable. He did not even look like a human anymore!

Just as Adam and Eve were unrecognizable after they sinned, Jesus became unrecognizable when He bore all our sin. It is a great exchange! Jesus became unrecognizable so that we could become recognizable again.