There is this new song out by Michael Gungor that has gotten me thinking. It simply says, "You make beautiful things out of the dust...you make beautiful things out of us."

Look closely at the creation of man in Genesis 2:7 and we see a God who is creative and perfect. This creative God takes the dust of the ground and creates a human. But the most powerful part comes next when the text says that God breathed life into him. I haven't been able to move from this thought. The God that created us breathed into us...in a sense we could say that God is our lifeline, but in another sense we must say God is our lifeline in the sense that he instills us with that necessary element to live.
Look at what God says about us in Genesis 1...He says we are made in his likeness, in his image. He says we are good. God has made us beautiful originally and he continues to make us beautiful. First Corinthians tells us that in Christ we are a new creation, the old is gone and the new has come. God takes this filth, this broken and hurt humanity and turns it into beauty, but really we knew he could do this. He used the dust to create us, he used the dust to form us and than he stepped down and breathed into us. I hope the significance is sinking in. God is intimately involved in our lives, and is constantly making us new. I don't know about you but there are times when I feel too dirty and unfit to be loved by God, but Ephesians says we are God's workmanship....We are God's masterpiece.....We are God's. For some reason that ceases to be enough for us, but please consider the gravity of that statement. We are God's. I am God's. You are God's. He created man from dust. He formed you in your mothers womb, He did not mess up.

Now we have been broken and hurt and cut and torn...I was looking at one of those dandelions that you can blow the seed off and they fly out the other day and thought of God's creativity. Of all the flowers it seems this one has the saddest fate, it seems it's purpose is simply to be destroyed. It is easy to blow the seeds off, it is breaking the flower, but out of that brokenness God incites life by having those seeds to go and bear life...

Yet, isn't that the beauty of our God, that he makes beautiful things out of the dust.....

That he makes beautiful things out of us....