My Mothers home is a giant dust ball. There are particles flying through the air in her house that I would not be surprised have survived the pre-historic era. She proudly states that her dust is special, because germs have the right to live too. Dust hangs from pink fairies wings and cluttered paper collections as if I am the rude one to intrude on their space. I at times think that all the dust bunnies in the world collaborate at my mothers home and have a dust bunny convention. I have never seen so much debris gathering in one small space in all my life!
In the word of God, dust is equally troublesome. God first brings dust to light with Adam in Genesis 2:7: Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.
I think its a bit spooky that our great great great times a few hundred greats, grand daddy, was a human dust ball. Hang in there, I am going somewhere with this!
We as humans are this walking, talking, ball of matter, a fact that utterly fascinates me. Our Bodies are so much a part of the chain of life that we began our existence in dust and return to the earth, eventually the same way. Wow! When I think of that it blows my mind! Our earthly beings will someday become one with earth, burrowing down into nature. One with the roots and the nutrients in an endless cycle of replenishing and restoration. That's amazing! How odd then that God describes our earthy decay so differently in this circumstance..
Ezekiel 37:13: Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.
God commissions Ezekiel to talk to the religious and the idol worshiping crowds, the dry dead remains of his church, and command life back into them. In fact he uses the word “breathe” in this chapter. He describes the flesh and sinew coming back on the bones to form life again in the body. He brings back from the remains of dust and decay, and blows life, and Hope into their weary dead existence!
It is no mistake that God uses the dust of his people. Our life is important, our existence as purposed and planned as the circle of life.
When God formed you he blew the first breath of life into your soul. You became a person of significance. His Holiness chose to dwell in an earthen(or dust made vessel) and become a walking portrait of the life and love of God with in you.
It is unfortunate then that the body of believers have sunk to some degree back in the grave, forgetting their purpose, their value, and devaluing the importance and life of one another. I believe in our modern terminology, we have begun to resemble Zombies! Well frankly, when we walk in the dust of religion and not in the life of relationship, we are what Ezekiel saw in his vision. A not so lovely version of the undead, dead! Consider this, Dear one, when Christ commissioned his followers to speak and tell the gospel, those who were not received were told this in Mathew 10:14: And whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.
Do not miss this Church, its an understated thought. You are a Holy vessel, you are a purposed vessel, the spirit of a mighty living God resides in you, where you tread, and the dust you stir is Holy ground because God almighty lives in you! It is not a light thing to reject his earthen vessel and the love of God it brings. The biggest sign of dishonor to the hosts was to take off those Holy sandals and shake the dirt off of them!
You have a choice to be the dust that stirs life and growth into a thirsty earth, or to be the body with one foot in the grave, but you are purposed to be a beautiful example of Holiness, in a dust made vessel.
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