Mirror, Mirror

Okay, there's going to be some audience participation on this one. First I need you to go look at yourself in the mirror. Get a good look at your own face from near angles, far angles, etc. Study the color and consistency of the color in your eyes for instance. Notice the hair on your head, the shape of your nose and ears, etc. Then come back. Really...you should do it.

Now ponder this: You were made in God's image.
Genesis 1:26-Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." (NIV)
Genesis 1:27-So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. (NIV)

Now go look at yourself again if you wish. No matter what you look like you are the handiwork of the divine Creator, a living work of art.

God created us in his image.
He did not create us to die. He did not create us to toil and slave. He did not create us to suffer.
All of these are the result of the free will of man and choices man has made (see Genesis 3).
He created us to be in relationship with Him.
Do you have that relationship?