from dust you came and dust you shall return

From Dust You Came And Dust You Shall Return Free And Uninhibited#

Thy dead men.Earlier today, I stood before a coffin and uttered again the familiar words, ‘earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust’. 9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. 8 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher all is vanity. The photograph is in fact an extreme closeup of the.7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Inkjet print Hahnemhle photo paper 40 x 28.6 cm. Turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ.’From Dust You Came, To Dust You Shall Return, 2018.

From Dust You Came And Dust You Shall Return Free And Uninhibited

But then we got above ourselves, and we began to play God, making wrong choices and having to wear the consequences. Whether we’re buried or cremated, we will become one again with the dust of the earth.These words hark back to one of the great foundational myths from Genesis – a story that talks about how we came from God how God formed the first of us from the dust of the ground, and breathed life into us how in the beginning we were intimate and close with God how we walked free and uninhibited with our God. The ashes we’re presented with today are a reminder that from the day that each of us was born we began to die.

But then, that’s not how it ends. Turn away from sin and be faithful to Christ.’I find it a tough message to hear, perhaps even dismal. And so we hear again the words, ‘Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return. And so, in that old story, God said to the human one, the one we call Adam, that life would be tough and tiring, ‘until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken you are dust, and to dust you shall return.’Because of that, we see the sign of dust and ashes all about us – of our failures of the hurts we inflict and the hurts we receive of our attempts to play God, of sidelining God and following our own path the ashes and dust that come when we no longer walk with God.

These ashes return us to our Creator who loved us at the beginning, who loves us now, and who will love us for eternity. We can’t take anything out of this world – that is, except for God’s love for us – a love that is so immense, that it transcends even the grave. Someone said, that there are no pockets in a shroud. We return to what it is to be a child of God, to know ourselves treasured and of infinite worth to our Creator.Today points to how it will be at the end of our living on earth. We go back to before we tried to be God, and instead, simply get to be with God.

Today, we see ourselves “As dying, and see – we are alive … as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing”. Today, we hear God say, “return to me with all your heart” for I am “gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love”.