Summary: Everything in our world is God's.
Genesis 2:7
the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
Application: Our bodies were formed from the dust of the earth... does that mean man was made alive through the forming of lifeless ground? Not at all! The living being did not arise from the dust. We must examine the verse more carefully. The purpose of this verse in not to attach our mind to the idea that man is created from earth. The purpose of this verse is to free our minds from thinking our forming out of dust has anything to do with life. It outlines the separation between being formed physically from the world and being made ALIVE by the breath of God. The physical side of us is nothing but dust... but instilled with the breath of life from God we are LIVING beings. What does this mean to us? Let us follow the ideas through logically... if the life of man comes from the breath of God... and it is our being alive that grows life upon the earth... all life, all that we produce with our toil, came from the breath of God. So where do we turn when we feel lifeless and empty, to the world or to God? Who do we thank for our success, and how do we celebrate it? Who really has the ownership of all that we own, all that we possess? Free your minds, the earth has no stake in anything produced by your life. So keep only the portion of God's blessing that you need and let God claim the rest. Ask him how he'd like to spend it!
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