There is a difference between doing something in order to become something and doing something because of who you already are. Religion often teaches us to do. Do better. Pray more. Believe harder. Get it right. Be more obedient. Produce more fruit. Have more faith. And maybe then we will be blessed. Maybe then we will be accepted. Maybe then we will become who God wants us to be. But the revelation of God through Jesus Christ invites us into something entirely different. Being. Before man ever did anything, God said: “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them have dominion.” God's intention was established before man ever took a breath. Image. Dominion. Man did not have to work his way into the image of God. He was created in it. He did not have to chase dominion. God gave it to him. He did not even have to subdue the earth in order to obtain dominion. He subdued because dominion had already been given to him. What he did was supposed to come from who h...