As God was making the world and everything in it, he made man on the sixth and final day of creation. I want to focus on what the text tells us about God in the making of man.
Let’s look at the text:
Genesis 1:26
[26] Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” (ESV)
We notice an inner dialogue taking place. In all of the other days of creation, and in all other created things that God made, he simply spoke them into existence. But things change when God makes man. God talks to himself.
We now know this is the Triune God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), discussing the making of man. Let’s pause there for a moment.
No one person of the Trinity is going off on their own to make man. There is, instead, a calling to come united in the creation of man. «Let us». There is a perfect community here. Perfect unity in the Trinity (God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit). No one person of the Trinity opposed the proposition. The Triune God was in agreement as to the plan to make man, and it is out of this perfect communion, agreeance, and unity that man was created.
The Bible teaches us that God is love (1 John 4:8), and it’s this God of love, the Triune God, who came together to make man. Man was made out of love. Not out of lack, but out of abundance. Man was made thoughtfully, purposefully. Because of this, man can be secure in his place in the world. Because of this, man can also walk securely knowing that he was wanted.
Because of this, man can also come together to accomplish great things. Man can also call on his fellow men and say, «let us», and agree to walk in unity.
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