Everyone does it: you Google your own name, you Google your friends' names, you Google information you need. Sometimes you do it for the text information and sometimes you do it for the images.
Google it-- "creation". Click on images. What do you see?
The famous painting from the Sistine Chapel done by Michelangelo. You can Google it to get an even closer view of God's finger reaching out to Adam's finger. But, they are just about to touch.
Known by the religous and non-religious due to it's aesthetics and history; it is could be viewed as an image revealing God's character at creation and beyond. (Romans 8)
His Character?-- Reaching Out and Pursuing!
Genesis 1:26-27 says it this way, "Then God said,' Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them hve dominon over the fish of the sea nad over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on earth.' so God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."(ESV)
Look at the picture, check out the hand on the left. That hand seems a little lazier than the intensity of the one on the right. God's hand (the one on the right) is Pursuing, seeking to Abide with His Creation.
God spoke all creation into being. With human beings (made in His image) He does something unique. He Reaches Out and Pursues to form them with His hands. Even when we get lazy or run away, God is still Reaching Out and Pursuing.
That gap between God and Adam is closed in the Second Adam, Jesus. God shows just how much He cares for His entire creation in Jesus. There is no seperation between God and Jesus, there is no gap because Jesus is God. And through our relationship with Jesus, that He pursues, we intimately know that God Reaches Out and touches us.
Prayer:
Pursuing God, may I know your presence and your touch this week. I am often lazy in life and my relationship with you, so reach out and breathe life into me. Then I may do your will with my hands and praise you through it. In the name of the one who closes the gap, Jesus. Amen.
