His Dust

‘Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person’ Gen.2:7.

From day one God had been creating different fantastic and beautiful things but everything that He created, He spoke it into being. He called forth light, birds, fish, and separated the waters by His words. God had created everything by the spoken word until the sixth day. ‘Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person’ Gen.2:7. Permit me to indulge your imaginative senses a little. The angels were marveling at God just speaking the words and the earth taking shape at His word. ‘Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us’ Gen.1:26. And at this point, the Almighty God bends down, takes dust, and begins to form it. And all the angels begin to speak at once in total amazement. ‘What is He doing? He has been calling forth everything but why is He picking up dust? He is going to get His hands dirty!’ But God is focused on the dust in the palm of His hands, shaping, sculpting and forming this being. Then He places it in the middle of the garden and calls it man. ‘What was this lifeless thing He had formed from the dust of the earth?’, the angels wondered. ‘There is nothing to it; it is just a beautiful sculpture’, they thought. Then God Almighty picks up the lifeless being, with so much delight in His eyes and breaths into its nostrils. Everyone is quiet, watching – wondering. Then man takes his first breath, coughs, and opens his eyes.

Man does not become a living soul until God breathes into the nostrils of what He has created. Until the breath of God enters into a being the potential of that being does not begin. God decided that He was going to make His crown jewel on day six and that was man which He sculpted and put His breath in. It is God that has made us and given us life but in His hands we are nothing but clay. It is the life of God that gives us significance. It is the breath of God that gives us significance in our lives. Over the next few days, we would be learning from the different elements in pottery making. May God shape our lives anew in this season, in Jesus Name.

Prayer [song]: ‘Change my heart oh God, make it ever true. Change my heart oh God, may I be like You. You are the Potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me, this is what I pray’ Amen!