Co-Workers in Creation

[Thompson, Darryl]

Co-Workers in Creation 

     And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. ...
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;
male and female created he them. Gen. 1:26, 27.  

     After the earth was created, and the beasts upon it, the Father and
Son carried out their purpose, which was designed before the fall of
Satan, to make man in their own image. They had wrought together in the
creation of the earth and every living thing upon it. And now God said
to His Son, "Let us make man in our image."  

     Adam and Eve came forth from the hand of their Creator in the
perfection of every physical, mental, and spiritual endowment. God
planted for them a garden and surrounded them with everything lovely and
attractive to the eye, and that which their physical necessities
required. . . .  

     The holy pair looked upon nature as a picture of unsurpassed
loveliness. The brown earth was clothed with a carpet of living green,
diversified with an endless variety of self-propagating,
self-perpetuating flowers. Shrubs, flowers, and trailing vines regaled
the senses with their beauty and fragrance. The many varieties of lofty
trees were laden with fruit of every kind and of delicious flavor. ...  

     Adam and Eve could trace the skill and glory of God in every spire
of grass and in every shrub and flower. The natural loveliness which
surrounded them, like a mirror reflected the wisdom, excellence, and
love of their heavenly Father. And their songs of affection and praise
rose sweetly and reverentially to heaven, harmonizing with the songs of
the exalted angels, and with the happy birds who were caroling forth
their music without a care. There was no disease, decay, nor death
anywhere. Life, life was in everything the eye rested upon. The
atmosphere was impregnated with life. . . .  

     Adam could reflect that he was created in the image of God, to be
like Him in righteousness and holiness. His mind was capable of
continual cultivation, expansion, refinement and noble elevation, for
God was his teacher, and angels were his companions.  

>From That I May Know Him - Page 13