"All We Are is Dust in the Wind"

"He knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust."

Psalm 103:14 NIV

"What a blessed relief to be reminded that God knows me - in fact, he knows me so well He understands that apart from Him I can do nothing.

I don't have to prove myself to God.

I don't have to worry about disappointing God.

I don't have to earn His respect.

I don't have to deserve His blessings....

He created me in the first place....

I am just a little dust person infused with the very breath of God!"

--Just Give Me Jesus

Anne Graham Lotz

I was reading this verse and little devotional yesterday and it occurred to me yet again just how much God loves me and wants the best for me. No matter how it looks to me, God's ways are best and I don't have to understand, prove myself, earn or deserve anything He chooses to give me. Left to my own devices, I would succeed at making a complete mess out of everything that I try to "fix" for Him - from events, people, or circumstances into my life. Isn't that sad? For me.

Then tonight I was talking to my friend, Carrie, and she mentioned hearing teaching tonight on the Valley of Dry Bones. The message that she carried away with tonight was the fact that those old bones are not going anywhere without the complete sustaining power of God. Together putting these two pieces together, it once again reminded me how very incompetent and unable we are without Him. We pray for our own will to be done, we talk about things which we cannot possibly fathom and take credit for things that God blessed us with. What is wrong with us?

My favorite part of the devotional is when she calls me " a little dust person infused with the very breath of God." So this is it. We are strictly dust walking. Think about that. We are able to hold our human form solely based on God's benevolence and grace that allows a little of Him to inflate our skin with His holy breath. Somewhere along the way, we have allowed that breath from God to penetrate our heads and our egos and not so much in a good way. Why do we think that God's way is not good enough? Why is God's timing not quick or slow enough? Why do we think that the thoughts formed in our heads trump the very Mind of God who created the tapestry of who you are, the earth on which you walk, and the number the days you have left in your life?

Unfortunately, I find I am just that arrogant to think my ways are better. Praise the Lord, He doesn't think so. Do I throw some temper tantrums when I don't get my way? Yes. Do I pray for God to do it my way? Yes. Do I thank the Lord when things are just as He wills it to be and doesn't resemble in any way, shape or form what I desperately wanted? Not enough but I am trying. I trust Him and when I answered His call on my life to follow Him for the rest of mine, there were no promises with regard to comfort or convenience. There was a call from Him and then we began to walk together. Period. There were no caveats. There were no bargains. I am a dust person infused with the very breath of God. My body, my mind, and my life is strictly the venue. He is what people want to see. Not me. Anything at all attractive in me is the Spirit of God and His likeness. I pray that you can see Him and His choices for me written all over my dusty life.

To God be all the glory and honor.