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The Image Restored

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 21, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 42.

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The Image Restored

By Winifred Holmeden

WINIFRED HOLMDEN
MAN was made in the image of God. He came forth from the hands of the Creator a perfect being, clothed with light as with a garment, with all the powers of his being capable of enjoying to the fullest extent the glorious beauties of the Eden in which he was placed. His ears could hear the leaves of the trees as they clapped their hands, the mountains and hills as they broke forth into singing, and the morning stars as they sang together. His eyes could behold the lovely earth clothed in its garb of innocence and beauty, the unsurpassed glory of the garden of Eden, with its river of life flowing peacefully along between banks of living green. He could inhale the fragrance of the flowers that never fade. He could taste the fruits of the tree of life. And more than allthis, he was given dominion over all the creation of God.
Living in harmony with the law of God, all was happiness. But there came a day when man listened to the voice of the tempter, he yielded, he lost his dominion. He lost, in part, the image of God in which he was created. The result was that Christ, who alone bore the express image of his Father, “was made in the likeness of men: and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” “And having made peace through the blood of his cross” in order to reconcile us unto himself, he will change our vile bodies, that they may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. And we, at this present time “beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory.” So, knowing that the glory of the Lord has arisen upon us, we should arise and shine amid the gross darkness that is covering the earth. For it is by letting our lights shine that others will see the glory of God and his image formed in us.
Thus we see that man, formed in the image of God, through sin lost that image, and Christ, to redeem us from the power of sin, took upon himself our image, that we by his grace might be transformed into his own image. Let us who know the power of his resurrection “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”