Genesis 1:27
We are Made in God's Image
27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
John 6:25-59
Drawn to God
25 When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
26 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.27 Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”
28 Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?”
29 Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
30 So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’”
32 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”
35 Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. 36 But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. 37 All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. 39 And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. 40 For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died.50 But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”
52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum.
As Jesus tells us that He is the Bread of Life, He includes some words that are very interesting...Jesus says that it is His Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and He will raise them up at the last day....Then Jesus adds that no one can come to Him unless God who sent Him draws them, and then He will raise them up at the last day...Jesus said that it is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’...Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me."...
This is almost like saying that before we can seek God, God Himself must do something first to us so that we can be drawn to Him...Or Jesus means that we cannot be drawn to Him (Jesus) unless God does something first to us?...Is this the Holy Spirit Jesus is talking about, that thing that God puts in each of us -to make us drawn to Him?...
What does makes us drawn to God and Jesus?...God has put a desire of some sort in us so that we are drawn to Him and His Son...By saying that "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws them."...And it is by this very word "draw" that God takes from us first and gives us something first that makes us Spiritual and puts in us (so to speak) that gives us a desire to seek Him....We naturally are a part of our Creator, since He created us...This impulse from our Creator makes sense, if we believe what St. Augustine said...St. Augustine said, "You have made us for Yourself, O LORD, and our heart is restless until it rests in You."...So to pursue God originates first with God...How could this not be, since He is the Creator of all things, and our Creator?...We are made in His Image, and an instinct and impulse and desire would to be with the One we love and who created us to be in His Image and to be somewhat like His Specific Image...
I believe God has made man a Spiritual Creature and that is in His Image, and we seek Him, because we are instinctively His children...And like a child with its naivete and curiosity we seek Him, by and from something He has given us and put in us...