“Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”” (Genesis 1:26)
Our very first moments on earth were created in perfection. The earth was perfect and newly formed. All God had formed was declared to be good.
We had been made in His image and whatever else that means, it means that we started out perfect.
I think one way of summarizing the fall from perfection was that we got things turned around. We started making God in man’s image instead of allowing ourselves to be man made in God’s image. It’s easy to do. We make other things into gods or limit God by expecting Him to answer our prayers according to our will, not His. What have you allowed to be conformed to fit your own image or the world’s? I invite you, as we focus on transformation, to allow yourself to be transformed back into the image of God and allow Him to take His rightful place on the throne of your heart.
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.” (Romans 12:2)