The Point of Creation

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

Desiring God

Joy, Unknown, Devotional, Desiring God, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Daily Devotional, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Solid Joys, Jesus, John Piper

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🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

God made humans in his image so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God. Images of God. So that nobody would miss the point of creation.

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0:00.0	August 7, the point of creation.
0:04.0	So God created man in his own image.
0:07.0	In the image of God, he created him.
0:09.0	Male and female, he created them.
0:12.0	Genesis 1, 27.
0:14.0	God made humans in his own image
0:18.0	so that the world would be filled with reflectors of God.
0:23.0	Images of God.
0:25.0	Seven billion statues of God.
0:29.0	So that nobody would miss the point of creation.
0:36.0	Nobody, unless they are stone blind,
0:40.0	could miss the point of humanity, namely God.
0:45.0	Knowing, loving, showing God.
0:50.0	The angels cry in Isaiah 6, 3, holy, holy.
0:55.0	Holy is the Lord of hosts.
0:58.0	The whole earth is full of his glory.
1:01.0	It is full of billions of human image bearers.
1:06.0	Glorious ruins.
1:10.0	But not only humans, also nature.
1:14.0	Why such a breathtaking world for us to live in?
1:20.0	Why such a vast universe?
1:24.0	I once read that there are more stars
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