Man is a unique creature of God, made in His image and likeness. He is a moral creature composed of spirit, soul and body, receiving His life directly from God breathing into his nostrils the breath of life. How blessed and how responsible is God’s creature man! Being a moral creature, he is responsible, and being responsible, he is accountable to God for this behavior. Failing in faith and obedience, he disobeyed and morally degraded himself. He knows good and evil, but in his sinful condition, he refuses the good and chooses the evil. God now meets him where he is and, through the death of Christ, earnestly beseeches him to be reconciled. He who receives God’s offer of reconciliation enters a new creation with the promise of being morally like Christ forever. For the present, He “that hath this hope in Him purifieth himself, even as He is pure” (1 John 3:3).