MADE A LITTLE LOWER

I MADE YOU A LITTLE LOWER than the heavenly beings and crowned you with glory and honor. You were made for greatness, beloved.

Never doubt your personal significance, for I created you in My own image—in My likeness.

I formed you with a magnificent brain that can communicate with Me, think rationally, create wonderful things, and much more.

I gave you dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and every living thing that moves on the earth.

Of everything I created, only mankind is made in My likeness.

This is a glorious privilege and responsibility; it makes every moment of your life meaningful.

One of your chief purposes in life is to glorify Me.

I crowned you with glory so that you can reflect My Glory: lighting up this dark world and helping others come to know Me.

I also want you to enjoy Me.

I created you with unlimited capacity for pleasure in knowing Me.

This Joy you find in Me here and now is a tiny foretaste of the eternal delights awaiting you in heaven.

You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.—PSALM 8:5

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”—GENESIS 1:27–28 NKJV

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.—2 CORINTHIANS 3:18