Glory Spilling Into Creation

These “snap shots” that God gives us of Himself are much more than God accommodating Himself to human language. God isn’t using our understanding of servants to suggest that He is like a servant. No, God is theservant, thehusband, thefather, thebrother, and thefriend. Any resemblance in the created world is simply God’s glory spilling into creation and creatures. Whenever you see these albeit distorted images in other people, they are a faint reflection of the original. I am a father because God is a father. I am a worker because God is the original worker. Ed Welch, The Journal of Biblical Counseling, Vol. 13, Num. 1, Fall, 1994.