Dirty and Dusty-

According to Dr. Jamal Bryant he argues one day, “They are people who are successful but insignificant, they are people who are wealth but worth nothing. “

In genesis 2:7, God formed man out of the dust of the earth however prior to the formation of man, the picturesque imagery and scenery of the earth was that of a desert because when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the earth.

Hence the ground of the earth was dirty and dusty by the time God rolled his sleeves to form man out of the dust.

 

Genesis 2:7 & Luke 24

The earth was dusty and dirty but neither of the two hindered God from rising man out of the dust of the earth. Man is symbolic to the glory of God on the highest level because he expressly represents the image of God.

However the irony is embedded in the fact that the highest degree of God’s tangible and visible glory was raised from that which was dirty and dusty.

When people play dirty against you and walk away from you for dead leaving you down casted and low0down all feeling like dust that is worthless then you going to have a problem trusting people again.

You are afraid to show up in public spaces because now you feel insignificant and worthless despite your track record of remarkable success and the wealth that is written to your name.

It’s a critical moment now because you look at a people who are not as successful as you and not as wealthy as you walking around significantly and worthwhile and you wonder why?

They are walking significantly and worthwhile because they have not been through nothing dirty and dusty.

In Luke 4, Jesus is full of the holy spirit and he is led into the wilderness or the desert –a place void of habitation and for forty days and nights he is eating nothing and because he is  in a desert, he is dusty and dirty by now.

It’s easy to think that Jesus is insignificant and worthless until you realize that the hand of God is rested upon his life and that he is dusty and dirty just

And when the moment is over, he will walk out of the desert in power and glory, submitting every thing under his feet.

When God puts his hand in the earth which was dirty and dusty, he was able to lift up man out of the dirt and the dust to a degree of glory higher than all other things created by He-God.

My dear friends it may be that by this time you are all by yourself with nobody to cheer you and to give you encouragement.

 The people you helped have forsaken you all by yourself; you feel so down and low.

Your life is at a dirty and dusty place but yet still you are not insignificant and worthless because the hand of God is on your life.

So as to make your life into a marvelous image, symbolic, and an example that is only and can only be likened unto the power, and the glory of God Almighty.

And when God is done with you then he will lift you up from your dirty and dusty experience so that you can look more wondrous and more beautiful than your contemporaries.