MAN IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD
MONDAY, SECOND WEEK OF LENT Dan 9:4-10; Ps 79:8-9,11,13; Lk 6:36-38 Learning to Act Like God Recall that the project the Trinity of Persons in God set out to accomplish in creating man is to make man in the image of God and to be like God. As we have come to know, the first part of the project did not pose any difficulty for God, whose infinite power can accomplish all things. But the aspect of making man to be like God involves the free will of man, which the infinite goodness of God has endowed man with. In His divine integrity, God respects the free will of man; He can only guide man through the inner light of his rational nature to act like God. We are already familiar with the story of Adam and Eve and how the serpent deceived them from the path of rationality, leading to their likeness to God. He made them desire to be like God without God’s help and grace. The story is not just a story, but the experience of each human person; for in each of us lives Adam and E...