She was already like God

One of the most subtle things about the serpent’s lie to Eve in the garden was his deceitful promise that eating the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil would make her like God. (Genesis 3)

Now, this implied that since she was not like God in His being God, she was inadequate in some way.

The serpent who spoke these crafty words to Eve believed himself to be better than God, in his pride seeing himself as a competitor rather than creation of God. But truly, we can learn to be content as His creation, made for relationship with and worship of our Creator.

Not to mention, after God had created man, He had called him good. God was content in how He had created us, needful and dependent on Him, vulnerable in many ways, possessing creative and moral qualities and more. We were created for Love, and He is not one to make mistakes.

Of course, at the fall, Adam had introduced sin into the world, and we each have sinned individually (Romans 5:12). Part of the beauty of the gospel is that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Psalm 16:2 reveals to us through David's confession that we have no goodness apart from God, as he cried,

I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good apart from you.”

Jesus said in the gospels that no one is good except God, not denying the man’s claim that He is good, but revealing that He is God (Mark 10:18).

We cling to our Saviour in our need. In our brokenness and sin. And in His grace, He clothes us with His own righteousness.

We are His blood-bought daughters. Children of the living God.

And we bear His image. When we fail to grasp this reality, as part of the wisdom of how He has made us, it can be tempting to believe more lies upon the foundation that helps us understand the dignity He has created us with. The dignity He has created all people with.

And that in turn affects how we dress, how we love, how we pray, how we work, how we rest…

In our shame, we would hide from God and clothe ourselves with fig leaves that tear at our flesh and leave us prideful and discontent.

But in His lovingkindness, He seeks us out anyway and exchanges our own efforts to save ourselves, for new garments that clothe and comfort us (Genesis 3:21). Even, and freely, at the ultimate cost to Himself, by sending His Son to die on a cross for our sins. 

So what does it mean to be Imago Dei, made in the image and likeness of God?

And with a truer understanding of who we are, as image-bearers, how can we dress to honor reality?

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