You are
nothing more than animated dust.
Does that
sound preposterous? It does to me. To think I am nothing, absolutely nothing
more than animated dust seems bizarre. I think of a wooden puppet brought to
life and then that magic of life is taken away and the puppet is nothing more
than wood again- lifeless. Are we all in some way dust Pinocchio's? Is
Pinocchio who was made of wood, ultimately a dust Pinocchio if the wood decay
breaks down to that level? Wood decays, it rots. Even some of the best
preserved wood without renewed applications of preservative would over time
hundreds, thousands of year eventually end up as dust- right? Wood rots and is
eventually ground into dust.
When our
animation ceases and the last breath of life is expelled from our animated dust
bodies and returns to God who gives that breath of life, another part of us
sleeps death's sleep.
Every
animated dust person is given a uniqueness that makes them special, one of a
kind. We are flesh, spirit and soul.
Heb_4:12
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged
sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Soul
divided from the spirit, just as bones from their marrow.
1Th
5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your
whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our
Lord Jesus Christ.
Your whole
spirit AND soul AND body.
We
animated dust beings are more than the dust. Just as- yes, I'm going back to
Pinocchio- when he was brought to life everyone became invested in him as a
living wooden being because he had a personality, he was more than an automaton
that simple responded to commands. He had a power of choice in him, a curiosity
in him- he wasn't brought to life only to remain a controlled puppet.
We are not
controlled animated dust beings.
Along with
the life in each and every particle of our bodies that will eventually return
to the dust as the original, first ever animated dust body was created from, we
were given a power of choice and a spirit that could be born within us united
to the Holy Spirit, one of the three separate beings that had a hand in our
very creation.
When
Adam's dust created body lay there on the ground newly formed it had no breath
of life in it, it had no ability to think, it had no ability to communicate
with its Creator. Separated from the breath of life, separated from the ability
to think, to choose, to commune with God- the body was an empty shell.
God
breathed that life into Adam, God brought to life the spirit within Adam, God
gave to Adam the power of individual thought outside of His control. God did
not raise a robot to life, a controlled dust being forced to obey His commands.
The power
to bring us to life to form us so that we live was not an accident, it didn't
happen over billions of years, we were created beings, designed beings. When we
chose to leave our Creator's guidance and step out on our own- drastic changes
occurred all around us and in us. With
the glorious light of our Creator stripped from us, we became creatures subject
to pain, to decay, to death. So much of us was altered so that we could
continue to function physically without God's glorious light, without the fruit
from the tree of life to sustain our grand design. With those things taken from
us we reverted to a most basic animated dust being without the power of eternal
life. That we were allowed to continue to live at all was a blessing, and it
was given to us only because there was a way already in place to save us and
return us to the eternal glory originally designed for us- should we
individually choose to accept the Way.
The accepting of the Way, is an accepting wholly and truly that the
power behind that Way was of God, and NOT anything we could manufacture on our
own. The Way was given to us, not made
by us. The power is God's.
2Co
4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of
the power may be of God, and not of us.
The Way is
the TREASURE in our dust animated bodies (earth made vessels). The Power of God
is the Way. The Kingdom of God was preached to us by His only begotten son,
Jesus Christ- who is the WAY. Jesus came
to expound on the knowledge that there is a HOPE for a return to our original
God designed being. We can be reunited with God! We can be brought back to
eternal life! All hope is not lost! We don't have to return to dust
permanently! On resurrection day, the day our Lord returns and calls us from
our graves, or from this world still living should we be among those blessed,
we will be raised up and transformed back into the original design!
1Co
15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall
be changed.
1Co
15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.
1Co
15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
Changed.
Yes, we'll still be animated dust beings but restored to immortality, to
eternal life, to incorruption- to the light of God's presence!
All glory
to God in the highest! All praise and honor unto Him! All worship to our
Creator, our Sustainer, our Redeemer, our LORD, Jesus Christ! All through the
Holy Spirit may we belong to them and no others!
