Julian of Norwich, p 4 says,
” … our God wants us to value all his work very highly; the noble work of creation, especially the creation of man, which excels everything else…”*
It strikes me that this is really significant. God made man in his own image (Gen 1:26) and he declared that all he made was excellent in every way (Gen 1:31).
Satan has been attacking man ever since to get at God. He has been hard at work to demean man, to make him less than. It seems this demeaning is getting worse and worse. The most dreadful denigration of man is happening today – reducing the glory of man (made in God’s image) to an animal – sexual denigration, moral denigration (lying, cheating, killing, etc), cheap life (abortion, war, drugs), etc.
Satan had been robbing us of our glory out of his hatred for God. Are we going to let him continue? Time to take a stand, to resist him, and return to our true place in and with God.
*[ Julian of Norwich. 1987. Revelations of divine love. (This edition edited by Halcyon Backhouse with Rhona Piper) London: Hodder & Stoughton.]