Dust... Dust..Dust.....

Dust…… dust…….. dust…..

Do you ever get fed up of dust….. dust accumulates…no sooner have you cleared it, but it is back again, making everything look messy.  We spend so much time trying to eliminate dust from our lives.

Definition of DUST. 1: fine particles of matter (as of earth) 2: the particles into which something disintegrates . 3. a: something worthless . b: a state of humiliation

Some thing worthless, something that has fallen into disrepair, is breaking down.   We see dust as worthless and often find ourselves striving to keep a dust free environment.

We are however formed from Dust, from dust we came, God took the dust, the base the worthless stuff of this earth, and created something of value, so many masterpieces. What can you make from the dust of your life? Can there be anything useful from Dust?

I am reminded of the story of the woman caught in adultery, brought out before her accusers, only to find Jesus, who bending down and wrote in the Dust.     What a picture, for her, life was about to go back to dust, from dust she came and from dust she was about to return.   Her life was about to end, she was expecting to be stoned, to die and fall back to the dust.   What an amazing picture here, the creator of all, once again goes back to the dust and writes in the dust, causing all her accusers to withdraw, and recreating her once again.  Jesus formed and created new life once again from the dust of a life.     There is much debate over what was written, but my focus is not on the words but actually on the DUST.    How often do you feel as if all your efforts have fallen into dust, how often do you feel as if you have been brought low, almost to the dust, how often are your dreams and visions, lying dead in the DUST… what a great moment of realization, the dust is useful, the dust can live again.   What will God write or recreate in the dust of your life?   Every life has its own unique dust, what will you write in your dust?   

As I meditated on dust, I discovered that there is actually no rain with out dust:-

“Raindrops begin forming when water vapor condenses on micrometer-sized particles of dust floating in the atmosphere. The dust particles grow to millimeter-sized droplets, which are heavy enough to begin falling. As they fall, the droplets accumulate more and more moisture, until they become the large raindrops that we see here on the ground.”

We so often cry for the rain of God to come, for God to pour out upon us, but I am reminded how God always desires to work in partnership with us.   Once again what an amazing picture, God actually requires the Dust of our lives to be combined with the water of the word to create the rain of heaven which can bring refreshing to world around us…. Wow,  am I ready to give God the dust of my life, am I ready for the living water to mix with my dust to form refreshment to others?

Why not measure out your dust today, why not consider the dust in your life right now, and allow it to be mixed with the water of heaven, allow the creator to make the dust of your life useful.

There is a choice to be made, we can choose to make our dust useful or we can sit in our dust, pour it over our heads and fall into further decay and destruction.   The word is clear I set before you a choice, Life or Death, choose life.    My choice is simple, Lord take my dust and reform my life, my dust is useful.