The Spittin' Image

Children who resemble their parents we often describe as being in the “spittin’ image” of their parents.

In the Baptism of Jesus, a voice from heaven declares that Jesus is in the “spittin’ image” of God. When we look at Jesus, we see God.

Families are the most powerful forces in shaping the lives of children for good and for ill.

The deeper we dig, the more we can see how we are in the “spittin’ image” of our parents and our first parents, Adam and Eve. What we have received from them is not pretty.

We need to be born again into a new family. That happened at our Baptism when we became in the “spittin’ image” of God.

By submitting to John’s baptism, Jesus so loved the world that he carried us and everything that is wrong with our lives to the cross and in exchange made us in his “spittin’ image,” sons and daughters of God.

In the “spittin’ image” of God, we get to live our lives as Jesus did, giving ourselves away in the service of others.