God-Stencilled

Here is a video I stumbled across called "The Glint" that talks about how, as humans, we put a piece of ourselves into the things we make. When God made us, it was the same concept except that he never needed us for his legacy to carry on; it is simply another way for him to show how wonderful and glorious he is--by letting us use the gifts he has given for his glory and the betterment of his kingdom.

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. ~Genesis 1:26-27 (ESV)

God made us in his image, but not physically being that God holds no human form (Jesus was not the basis of our physiology but rather subject to it). We are instead made to represent God in our spiritual, mental and physiological constitutions. God made us to think like him in a very natural way, so if we just put our efforts into becoming more God-like or Christ-like, everything we would need to accomplish that would become evident.

"Man's intellectual gifts are further seen in his ability to design things and then make them, to appreciate beauty, to compose glorious music, to paint pictures, to write, to count to large numbers and do mathematics, to control and use energy for his own benefit (e.g. fire, electricity, nuclear power), to organize, to reason, to make decisions, to be self-conscious, to laugh at himself, and to think abstractly. All this behaviour is non-instinctive, as distinct from animal behaviour, and as such it is of unlimited variety...God endowed man with intellectual ability which was and is far superior to that of any animal. Thus man was given a mind capable of hearing and understanding God's communication with him, emotions capable of responding to God in love and devotion, and a will which enabled him to choose whether or not to obey God. Man was thus equipped, not only to 'love God and obey Him for ever', but also to do God's work on earth" ~Russell M. Grigg