Genesis 2:5-7
“5 Now no
shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no
plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and
there was no one to work the ground, 6 but
streams[b]came up from the earth and watered
the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then
the LORD God formed a man[c] from
the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and
the man became a living being“
God laid this message on my heart, and I feel I need to
share it. You see, God “forms” man from the dust. Not just “(POOF), Hey look, it’s a boy.” No, he
formed us. He took the time to draw us out, to mold and make Adam into the man
he so desperately wanted him to be.
I
thought that was where that message would end. In the great and beautiful idea
that the maker of the earth “formed” us, and took His time with us, but then
God took me a little bit deeper into that rabbit hole. He said, “Look! Look at
the real story behind it. Look deeper into what I actually have done! Just look…”
I began
to meditate on that word. I began to wonder what God was stirring so heavily on
my heart, when He again spoke and said, “Look before this. Go back to the
beginning and see what I have done.”
I found myself in the only place
before Gen. 2, that would be in Gen. 1. God made the heavens and earth, placed
the stars in the sky, set the ocean in its depths, and brought up the
mountains. He made the clouds above and valleys below, He built the earth of
lava and set it into motion, and then…
Then He stepped back and said, “This is good.”
I then began to envision God himself stepping back, looking
at all of his creation and saying, “It is good, but.. but it is missing
something. It is missing the one I love. It is missing the one whom will walk
with me in the garden, it is missing my beloved.
And then it happened, He could have looked to the stars and
said, “You stars, you shine so brightly, you are seen for millions of miles,
because of your brilliance I will choose you to become my beloved.”, but He didn’t.
He could have looked to the oceans and said, “You ocean, you
will be my beloved because you are so mighty, you are so powerful, and you
represent me well. I choose you!”, but He didn’t.
He could have looked to the mountains and said, “You o
mountains, you will be my chosen, I will build my children from you. For you
are so sturdy, so unshaken, so unbreakable, I choose you.”, but He didn’t.
No, He doesn’t choose a single one of those. He looks down
into the earth, past the stars, past the oceans and mountains, and says, “You o dust, you will be my beloved. You are
mine. I choose YOU! For my stars already shine for me, my oceans already are
powerful, and my mountains are unshaken, but you… You dust are forgotten, you
will be overlooked, you are the one in whom they will despise. They will sweep
you away, wash you off, build roads over top of you in hopes of keeping you
from their feet, you will be despised, but I choose you! You, dust, I choose
you. I will raise you up because I see you. Because I made you, I love you, I
adore you. I will raise you up, and I will form you, and I will give life to
you. I will make you my beloved and you will be mine and I will be yours. I
will set you above all things. I will place you in dominion of the animals,
over the seas, over the mountains and all the ends of the earth. Because when
the world looks at you and sees dirt, I see my beloved creation. I have not
overlooked you, I have not forgotten you, I have not abandoned you.”
You see, God has not just “formed” us, but He has chosen us.
To build us up out the very thing that we wash away, the very thing which we do
not love. He has chosen us, and even as we have walked back into the dirt from
which we came He has still said, “I love you. When you covered yourselves with
leaves, when you hid from me in the garden, when you lied and fell, when you
were no better than the dirt you wipe off your feet, I, the Lord of Lords,
still choose you! So be mine. Be my beloved. Be my child and let me form you
and breath the life back into your lungs. You o dust are loved.”
