"O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the Lord our maker" (Psalm 95:6).

In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God
was to "make man in our image," and also that He "created
man in His own image" (Genesis 1:26-27). Similarly on the
seventh day, God "rested from all His work which God
created and made" (Genesis 2:3).

God is, therefore, both Creator and Maker of all
things, including the image of God in man. These two terms
are not synonymous, though they sometimes seem to be
used interchangeably. "Creation" is calling into existence
entities which previously had no existence. No one except
God is ever the subject of the verb "create." The work of
making, on the other hand, is that of organizing created
entities into complex systems.

It is interesting that God is called "Creator" five times
in the Bible, whereas He is called "Maker" sixteen times.
God created His image in men and women, but He also
made them in that image. That is, He called into existence
the spiritual component of man's nature, not shared in any
degree by the animals. He also organized the basic
material elements into complex human bodies, the most highly
organized systems in the universe, and these were made
in that image that God Himself would one day assume
when He became an incarnate human being. In this way He
is both Creator and Maker of His image in each person.

That image has been marred because of sin, but
through the work of Christ, we have been "renewed in
knowledge after the image of Him that created him" (Colossians
3:10), and our bodies will "be fashioned like unto His
glorious body" (Philippians 3:21). Created and newly created,
made and remade, let us humbly kneel before the Lord our
Maker and Creator. HMM