Perhaps God commands that no image be made of Him because we are made in His image. We have trouble enough as it is with self worship. If we attempt this anyway, we can only make something far inferior to the real thing. The closest we could come would only be a variation of ourselves. No image we could make would capture Him. We don’t fully understand ourselves, much less God. How then could we be so bold as to think we would be able to define God?
If we have lost awe and wonder when we consider God, it might be time to make sure we haven’t been guilty of creating some image that we are comfortable with. We might have unknowingly placed ourselves at the feet of an idol of our own making.
He has given us the exact image of Himself in His Son Jesus. We are to strive to be like Him. His image is to become ours.
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