I was at a friend’s house and their cat started rubbing on me. I looked down at the cat and said, what a worthless piece of fur. Immediately God spoke to me and said, My life is in that cat. I understood that the value of the cat was not only the life of God, but that God created the animal. We as mankind think of ourselves as the apex creation and are very important in our eyes. We are the apex of God’s creation and have a freewill.
Genesis 2:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Unfortunately because of the freewill, we sometimes think of ourselves as gods. We are gods without any power what so ever. Left to our own devices, we will destroy the good God put in us. Adam and Eve decided to do their own thing and sinned against God. This is where freewill came in. Because they had to power to change anything, God had to act to save their lives. He pushed them out of Paradise into the real world. God set the conditions that they and their descendants would live by.
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Mankind trotted along and did his own thing. Some followed God and some didn’t. Those who didn’t follow God started wars that killed thousands of people. The destruction that follows mankind. Those who followed God build His kingdom on this earth. Many were persecuted and killed for their beliefs, because they didn’t follow mankind into destruction. Finally, God chose a people to represent Him on earth. God made a covenant with Abraham. Abraham understood who he was when he said…
Genesis 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
One of Abraham’s descendants. King Solomon, the wisest man that ever lived, came to the understanding of who he was in relation to God. He said…
Ecclesiastes 3:20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Understanding who you are will put you in the right place to stand before God. It will give you the opportunity to chose God’s plan for you life. And this plan will lead you home. We were made from the dust of the earth and our bodies will return to the dust when we die. We have that choice to made in our life. Even if we don’t decide one way or the other, we still have made a choice. From dust we came and we will return to dust in the end.
Crain Blanchard.
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