The Question 006 | Dust

Creation

006 | Dust

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”

Genesis 1.27 ESV

“…then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”

Genesis 2.7 ESV

Right now, you are alive. Your blood is pumping, your brain is firing with electricity, and your lungs are constantly inflating and deflating. You’re digesting your last meal you ate and your skin is being replaced by new skin.

Think of the way our lives work. Think about how amazing life is. Somehow, a living man and a living woman can come together and create a living child. Life can produce more life, which can in turn produce more life.

Yet, somehow there is more to us, more to life, than just our bodies. There is a Something, a Spark inside us. Somehow we can create a combination of sounds that moves us to tears, songs with pitch and rhythm and they do beautiful things. We create. We build. We have art and culture and incredibly complex language to express what is inside of us. We can calculate and measure that which is unseen, we can look down to the tiniest building blocks of matter and out into the vastness of space. 

We have souls. We are set apart from the rest of creation, from the earth and the air and the sea and the creatures. We are different, made in the Image of the Creator. We are like Him, we reflect Him.

And that is absolutely amazing.

Prayer

Dear Lord,

Thank you for creating us. Thank you for making us like You. Help us to become increasingly more and more like You with each passing hour. Renew our hearts, refresh our souls. Repair in us what has been broken, and shape our own desires to be like Yours.

Amen. 

The Question

What about your soul reflects the Creator?