{"id":653,"date":"2018-10-05T23:12:51","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2018-10-05T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T23:12:51","slug":"genesis-127-works-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=653","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 1:27 \u2013 \u201cWorks of Art\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absorbing God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>So, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.\u201d Genesis 1:27<\/p>\n<p><strong>Applying God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Louise and I found a beautiful piece of art. We were wandering through an art gallery, turned to one another and both said, \u201cI found something I like.\u201d We smiled, turned and pointed to the same picture. Whew!<\/p>\n<p>When we look deep into this picture we see the light of Christ. That\u2019s the point, huh. Often, I miss the light of Christ in another person because I don\u2019t look beyond the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my most memorable moments, as a Christian, have come when God has had me look right into someone\u2019s heart with the love of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how Jesus looks at each of us. He sees the beautiful image of Himself and His light within the depths of who we are. Good, bad, tall, small, kind, or unkind, to Him we are all incredible \u201cWorks of Art\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Accounting of God\u2019s Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do I allow myself to look beyond the surface in others? Do I know what it means to see the light of Christ in everyone I encounter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absorbing God\u2019s Word \u201cSo, God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.\u201d Genesis 1:27 Applying God\u2019s Word Louise and I found a beautiful piece of art. We &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/?p=653\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.act-ministries.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}