Dirt Don't Hurt

Have you ever considered that God is interested in your dirt?

Let's back up for a second and get into this for real.

Genesis 2:7

Then the Lord God formed man from the [a]dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.


God has an affinity for dirt. He completed creation, rested and then made humanity. Lets get into that idea. How did God make man? He left His throne to get down in the dirt to form us. Everything before humanity was spoken into being but He left His perch in glory to create and make us in His image and likeness.

There was something about the dirt that compelled God to come and see about it and be intimate with it. He saw something useful in the dirt. Thus, according to the Word, there is dirt in all of us. God's obsessed with us despite that.

God's interested in the dirt's potential and possibilities. God saw destiny and purpose. It was expendable and unworkable to the rest of creation but God used it to make man. The thing that makes you unloveable makes you useable to God. This is what God draws close to. The dirt in your life is what He can use to crown you with.

God uses dirt to get the glory. That's a word of encouragement....way down by the dirt, by the shade, the looks, and the things you did that you KNEW were wrong when you were doing them, God can still use your worship. Out of your mistake, your misstep, your out of order, your raw deal, your heartbreak, your pain....nothing from your journey will be wasted.

Now let's consider why God used dirt. Trees grow in dirt, flowers grow in it too. Nutrients are found in dirt. Though plants survive in water, they grown in dirt. He has you planted where you are because He wants your to grown. That's why there's dirt around you. That's why you're where you are.

Now consider this....if enough dirt is thrown around and coalesces, it'll become a rock and then a boulder. You add more dirt and eventually you'll have a hill...a little more time and dirt will yield a mountain. So if you stay small long enough...you'll be big enough soon enough. Dirt is required for building. That might be why its around you now.

Don't get made with folk who treated you bad because what they didn't understand that was with the right amount of pressure and head, diamonds form.

Somewhere and somehow God zones in on dirt. He sees potential there He wants to develop. He left Glory for dirt. So what does that mean? He's in the dirt with you. He doesn't leave us in the direct but His spirit sanctifies the dirt that we might get up. From the lowliest thing on the planet, God made man and then gave man dominion over everything. God originated "started from the bottom now we here!" Never forget where you are from or who brought you from that place. What does God then do with the dirt? He breathes on it....the shaping and the molding doesn't make man but the difference is made in the breathing. The breath of God was necessary for us to exist. The change is in the breath, the presence of God on the inside. And even now....we need to allow fresh breath from God to be in us and move us.

God's still not done with dirt though y'all and praise Him He ain't! God had a plan to clean up our dirt. He made Him who was without sin to become sin to become dirty. He made Jesus to know our hopelessness and helplessness, that we might righteous.