BBD 07.26.17 The Image of God (Classic)

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Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

26 July 2017

The Image
of God

But we all,
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of
the Lord. - 2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom
of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over
all creation. - Colossians 1:13-15 NKJV.

Jesus said this: “He who has seen Me has seen the
Father.” - John 14:9b NKJV.

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. - Romans 8:29 NKJV.

Thisman dot org is the website about a man whom many people across the world
claim to have seen in their dreams. One woman drew a sketch of the man after
having seen him in her dreams and gave the sketch to her psychiatrist. Another
client saw the sketch and claimed to have seen the same man in his dreams. From
there it spread with perhaps thousands of other people claiming to have seen an
image of the same person in their dreams. I did look at the website to see the
sketch of the man of their dreams, and to me, he appears to be like a variant
image of the smiley face with some hair. Maybe they are just having some happy
dreams.

Jim Stevens in Jonesborough, Tennessee is seeing an image of a man too, but not
in his dreams. Stevens has been seeing what appears to be the classical image
of Jesus in the condensation on the window of his Isuzu pickup truck. The image
has the long hair and a beard as Jesus is typically pictured, and by November
of 2009, the image had been appearing every morning for a couple of weeks. I
tried to find an update to see if the image is still appearing, but did not
find anything new. I am wondering if Jesus just appears on Isuzu pickup trucks,
or if he can appear on Ford and Chevy trucks too?

Of course, no one really knows what Jesus looked like, although there does seem
to be a commonality among all the purported early images that exist. There are
also a few written descriptions of Jesus, including one by Publius Lentullus,
and one by Pontius Pilate, in a letter to Tiberius Caesar.

Although we have not seen Jesus with our physical eyes, we have seen His image.
I am not talking about a photo, or a drawing, or a painting, or a carving, or a
sculpture or anything of that nature. We have seen the image of Jesus in the
lives of those who know Jesus as their Savior. In some believers, the image of
Jesus is not as easy to see as in the lives of others. Some believers act more
like Jesus would act than other believers do. As Paul says we are “…being
transformed into the same image.”

As it has been said many times, you as a Christian may be the only Bible that
some will ever read. You could also say that you as a Christian may be the only
Jesus that some will ever see. What portrait of Jesus are you painting with
your life?

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Lexi McCalip (her
last scan was clear!), Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please also pray for Aleesha
McMillan and Bal Krishna Pokharel (A pastor in Nepal with health issues).

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
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Posted by: theburningbushdevotional <theburningbushdevotional@...>

Classic from 2010

Burning Bush Devotional

26 July 2017

The Image
of God

But we all,
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being
transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of
the Lord. - 2 Corinthians 3:18 NKJV.

He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom
of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over
all creation. - Colossians 1:13-15 NKJV.

Jesus said this: “He who has seen Me has seen the
Father.” - John 14:9b NKJV.

For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His
Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. - Romans 8:29 NKJV.

Thisman dot org is the website about a man whom many people across the world
claim to have seen in their dreams. One woman drew a sketch of the man after
having seen him in her dreams and gave the sketch to her psychiatrist. Another
client saw the sketch and claimed to have seen the same man in his dreams. From
there it spread with perhaps thousands of other people claiming to have seen an
image of the same person in their dreams. I did look at the website to see the
sketch of the man of their dreams, and to me, he appears to be like a variant
image of the smiley face with some hair. Maybe they are just having some happy
dreams.

Jim Stevens in Jonesborough, Tennessee is seeing an image of a man too, but not
in his dreams. Stevens has been seeing what appears to be the classical image
of Jesus in the condensation on the window of his Isuzu pickup truck. The image
has the long hair and a beard as Jesus is typically pictured, and by November
of 2009, the image had been appearing every morning for a couple of weeks. I
tried to find an update to see if the image is still appearing, but did not
find anything new. I am wondering if Jesus just appears on Isuzu pickup trucks,
or if he can appear on Ford and Chevy trucks too?

Of course, no one really knows what Jesus looked like, although there does seem
to be a commonality among all the purported early images that exist. There are
also a few written descriptions of Jesus, including one by Publius Lentullus,
and one by Pontius Pilate, in a letter to Tiberius Caesar.

Although we have not seen Jesus with our physical eyes, we have seen His image.
I am not talking about a photo, or a drawing, or a painting, or a carving, or a
sculpture or anything of that nature. We have seen the image of Jesus in the
lives of those who know Jesus as their Savior. In some believers, the image of
Jesus is not as easy to see as in the lives of others. Some believers act more
like Jesus would act than other believers do. As Paul says we are “…being
transformed into the same image.”

As it has been said many times, you as a Christian may be the only Bible that
some will ever read. You could also say that you as a Christian may be the only
Jesus that some will ever see. What portrait of Jesus are you painting with
your life?

Copyright © 2010 - 2017. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of those
first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent to
prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The Burning Bush websites are celebrating
19 years online since January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush
Devotional has been spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 12,000
subscribers across the world.

The Addictions Kit - Biblical Help for Addictions by Ed Wrather is now
available for download from Amazon. The Addictions Kit provides practical Biblical steps to defeat
your addiction that actually work.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIYLNLM

The New Pastor's Training Manual is available for download on Amazon. Here is the link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PJ8UTGS If you prefer a paper copy of the book you can order it from
the Burning Bush website at http://bit.ly/1uXDBnk

Books now available at the Burning Bush website:

New Pastor's
Training Manual

Biblical Help for
Overcoming Substance Abuse

Biblical Help
for Overcoming Sexual Addictions In Times of
Trouble - Devotionals to Encourage and Strengthen You (Also available for
download on Amazon.)

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top right hand corner of all of the pages.

Check out the Scripture Index being constructed for the
Devotionals at the Burning Bush website. The Links are in about the middle of
the home page. Topics for each devotional are now being added to the Index.

Please continue to pray for
healing for Pastor Shane Hall, Michelle Abetz, Wesley Lewis, Brandy, Brad,
Damon D. & wife, Beverly (Jeanie’s sister), Brent Baker, Lexi McCalip (her
last scan was clear!), Gary Kirk, and Jeanie.

Please also pray for Aleesha
McMillan and Bal Krishna Pokharel (A pastor in Nepal with health issues).

Please pray for an end to the
racial hatred in the USA and that it will be replaced with peace and love. Many
prayer needs are posted at the Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page.
You can also post your prayer requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for me. My
prayer focus is now that God will give me opportunities to preach. As the
apostle Paul says, “…woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”).

You can contact Ed Wrather at
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can help support this
ministry by using this link: http://www.paypal.me/EdWrather

Devotion vs Devotional: We do our
devotions, we read devotionals.

You can unsubscribe to the burningbushdevo devotional group by
sending a blank email to burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email.

You may subscribe to the html text group (Because of time
constraints the devotional is only being sent now in html format) by sending a
blank email to burningbushhtml-join@welovegod.org and you may unsubscribe by
sending a blank email to burningbushhtml-leave@welovegod.org and then respond
to the confirmation email. If the link does not work, copy and paste the link.

To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: burningbushdevo-leave@welovegod.org