Holy Spirit of God, help me live into your image stamped into my being...

 
Mark 12:13-17

 
Jesus noted that coinage stamped with the visage of Caesar belonged to Caesar.  Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, he said. Likewise we are who made in the image of God reach our full place and purpose when we surrender to God our hearts, minds, souls and bodies – because we came from God and ultimately belong to God. Belonging to God, as we do, we human beings have a rhyme and reason to our lives that is so often forgotten or ignored. Historical works of art and literature and current media of all kinds constantly present a plethora of other images that beckon our allegiance. But whether remembered or not, it is living into the our Father’s likeness that renders our lives the most beautiful, and the most fruitful.  Like our Father God we have a great capacity to love and to be loved, that makes our lives worth living despite raging forest fires, wars or other natural or human-driven calamities. Additionally we have our Father’s ability deeply ingrained into our beings to create a wide variety of amazing and complex things to help us on our journey through this life, whether it be a garden, an organization, or a work of art. And we are also endowed with our Father’s ability to care about and care for all of the created world, with accountability and responsibility and life-giving energy. Will I live my life taking on the impression of the false images of the culture and society in which I live, that do not last and lead me astray into self-centred or de-humanizing behaviours?  Or will I study the image of God that is light in and of itself,  and life-giving and fruitful beyond measure, to become more and more like Him?  Holy Spirit of God, help me live into your image stamped into my being.  
        
The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever; the ordinances of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. .(Psalm 19: 9)  
 
The Only Begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his Divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made Man, might make men God’s.
St. Athanasius
 
Listen to Here I Am, Lord  By John Michael Talbot  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcxOkht8w7c
 
Soli ad gloriam Dei
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