IN THE BEGINNING...THE WORD
DAILY DEVOTIONAL FOR TODAY, MAY 8, 2012
THE IMAGE AND GLORY OF GOD
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. I Corinthians 11:7
In the Kingdom of God there is divine order which was instituted at creation. Man is the image and glory of God, made in the likeness of God. Man must be born again of the Spirit to become a son of God and to have dominion in the Kingdom of God, which rules heaven and earth. To be born again is to receive the forgiveness of sin through Christ Jesus and to confess and submit to Him as LORD over your life. In the Kingdom of God, man is under the authority of Jesus Christ; Jesus is the head and ruler of man. Man must stay in continual communion with Christ through prayer, fasting, daily confession and repentance of sin, worship, devotion in the Word and fellowship with the saints.
When man is under sin, sin is his covering. The glory of God is not seen. The man under sin is a slave to sin, and must do what sin demands. Gossip, pride, arrogancy, hate, contention, discord; these belong to the man enslaved to sin.
In the Church of God, man is not to cover his head with a covering, thus representing that he is a man of God-- freed from sin, in communion with Christ Jesus his LORD. It is this man, like my blessed husband, who possesses the glory of God: so good, righteous and needed in the earth!
Today, let us revere and behold the glory of God in man.
