At the creation of man, God said:

'Let us make man in our Image, after our likeness' (Gen. 1:26).

Before creation, and in order that creation should come to pass, He Who

was known in the fulness of time as Jesus Christ the Son of God, was 'The

Image of the Invisible God' (Col. 1:15).  The goal of redemption is expressed

by the use of this same term:

'For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to

the image of His Son' (Rom. 8:29).

This glorious goal is anticipated by the works of grace within the

believer, who has 'put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after