Moving to a new town allows your world to be infiltrated with a new sense of everything. Sometime last week, I was listening to a radio station (similar to the FISH) while traveling to Savannah, GA. and I came across this song called Beautiful Things by Michael Gungor Band. After listening to a few verses and noticing how it repeated itself, I wondered why was it repeating…so I listened carefully, and I felt God’s conviction on my heart. My heart went back to the beginning, back to the basics of how everything around us came to be (mind you, I was driving in the backroad-country-ville of Georgia and all around me is cotton fields, wood lines, and so much country life). I mean think about it….everything you see and do in its rawest form was created by God; light, sky, ground, seas, fruits, seasons, animals, livestock.
Nevertheless, out of all God has made around us, there’s still something much greater than that…
“Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…[so] the LORD God formed the man from the dust out of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Gen. 1:27; 2:7)
Just pause and give thanks to God because it’s only He who is able to create such a masterpiece out of a material that is as light as the wind will carry it. He took the time to create you.
We are made in the image of God
We are beautiful
We are made from dust…
God made you, me, mom, dad, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, kuya, ateh, your neighbor, the mailman, cousin, the guy who you met last week, the lady who you blessed yesterday, and everyone you interact with……..out of dust! Yet, we still kick, push, and shove him away from us. We allow this world to consume our personal selves as if we have to earn our way and pave the yellow brick road. That very same road we try to glorify is only for our culture to drive all over us like tires to asphalt.
Listen to what God makes out of dust:
