Section 4
our living there will be no falsehood, looseness, or lightness. Instead, our living will be honor able, pure, right, lovely, and well-spoken of. Of the many, many Christian virtues, Paul selected these six as governing aspects.
Here I wish to point out that all human vir tues were created by God. According to Genesis 1:26, we were made in God's image. Our human virtues are a vessel made to contain the divine vir tues, just as a glove is made in the image of a hand to contain the hand. The Bible reveals that the image of God is Christ (Col. 1:15; 2 Cor. 4:4). Therefore, to say that man was made in the image of God means that he was made according to the form of Christ. Man was created according to Christ so that he could contain Christ and express Him. A glove is designed in the pattern of a hand so that it can contain the hand. Like wise, man was designed by God to bear the pat tern of Christ. When Christ comes into a person, that person becomes a vessel containing Christ.
Romans 9 indicates that we are vessels to con tain the glory of God. The glory of God denotes the expression of God, and this expression is Christ. Human virtues such as truthfulness, dig nity, purity, and loveliness are all aspects of man as a vessel to contain Christ as the reality.