Genesis 1:26-27 -- In HIS image

God made man!  He made me.  He made you.  He made everyone.

Genesis 1:26 Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth.”
27 So God created man in His own image;
He created him in the image of God;
He created them male and female.

God made us in HIS image.  What does it mean to be made in his image?  Being made in the image of God sets us apart from the rest of creation.  He made us different than all the other plants and animals.  The plants and animals are not in his image.

He does not describe how he made the plants and animals, but he takes his time to tell how he made us.  He formed us with his hands and breathed life into us.

Genesis 2:7 Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

My husband has taught me to look for themes through out scripture. One of the themes is creation. Very evident in Genesis and spread throughout scripture. As I was trying to answer the question posted above, "what does it mean to be made in his image?" I found the following verses that ties in so well with this part of the creation story.

Romans 8:28 We know that all things work together for the good of those who love God: those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified.

In the beginning when God created man, he created us in HIS image. After the fall, when man sinned, we separated from God, though still made in his image, we lost something. A closeness with God that we will not experience again until we are reigning with God in the new heavens and the new earth. When God drew us to himself to be saved, we again became His image, in the image of his son, Jesus. We gained some of the closeness we lost. It is a new birth for the believer.