He is the image of the invisible God

Colossians 1:15-19 has long been one of my favourite parts of the Bible for thinking about Jesus' God-ness.
And it wasn't immediately obvious (at least to me)how studying an Old Testament overview subject through the Timothy Partnership would help me look at Colossians with my Bible study group.
But considering side by side what it means for man to be made in the image of God, and what it means for Jesus to BE the image of God has helped me to see more fully than ever before that these verses in Colossians are also about Jesus' man-ness.

He is the firstborn and heir. He is the one who rules in the way we failed to do. He is the one who reconciles us to God, which we couldn't do. He IS the image of God that we failed to be.

And so as we are transformed to his likeness we are being renewed in the image of the creator (Col.3:10). We are being made like Christ, who is the image of God - just what we were meant to be!