September 5.
Designer Dust

Hebrews 9:22

And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.

Our Creator has always fascinated me, especially in the way He designed, shaped, and configured our human body. He went to great lengths to design us in such a unique fashion, to the extent that no two people are the same; each one of us is distinctively different. Even though, when God made man, He used some stuff we don’t appreciate. He formed man from the dust of the ground – the stuff that we wipe off of our glasses and shine out of our shoes. We work hard to get it out of our clothes and keep it off our furniture. Regardless of how beautiful the person sitting next to you is, they are merely dust. Regardless of what they drove up here in, just dust. Regardless of what part of town you live in, you are nothing but dust. Job said we came from dust and we are going back to dust. It’s always strange to me how one hunk of dust seems to be more important than another hunk of dust. You see dust rolling his eyes at other dust. You see one hunk of dust pointing at another hunk of dust. Just because one hunk smells better than the other, it’s still nothing but dust.

God took that dust, formed it, shaped it, and stood it up with 263 bones, 600 muscles, 970 miles of blood vessels, 32 feet of intestines, a heart that beats 70 times a minute, and eyes that can take pictures like cameras. No wonder the Psalmist asked a question, “What is man that thou are mindful of him?” Nobody did it but God. It is he that has made us and not we ourselves. We ought to remind ourselves that I did not make me. Instead, sometimes we act as if we are self-made. We think we achieved all these things on our own. But there had to have been a creator. There can be no preacher without a creator. There can be no watch without a watchmaker. There can be no design without a designer. God is that master designer.