Beautiful Things

I am human. You are human. We are both humans. Humans sin. They fall short; they miss the mark. We fall into the traps of the world: lust, adultery, addiction, drugs, stealing, lying, cheating, gossiping, etc. We make poor choices. We do things that we know are wrong. We disobey. We choose worldly ways over the holy ways of our Lord, Jesus Christ. But despite all of the terrible things that we have done wrong, God still chooses to use us: broken and shattered, battered and dinged, scratched and filthy.

In the book of Genesis, chapter 2 verse 7 it says: “Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.”

When God created man, He created him from the dust. The dust, the dirt on the ground, the gross slimy stuff that our parents tell us not to get on the new carpet. The dust that we desperately try to clean off of our furniture before guests arrive into our homes.

We consider dust and dirt to be unholy, dirty things, but out of the dust God created something beautiful. He created life, man and woman; the human race. Out of something with a bad connotation, God created something beautiful. God is showing us that even though right now we might be going against His will, and not following His word and being the person that He wants us to be, that he can still make great things out of us. If God can turn dust into life, don’t you think that he can turn our brokenness into something beautiful?

The greatest thing is that God still continues to use us, despite our brokenness and our faults. He uses us, the sinners, not the saints, to change the world. He takes our failures and our shortcomings and makes us beautiful, just like when He created Adam out of the dust, He breathed life into us. God makes beautiful things out of us!

Revelation 21:4-5 says: “And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, no more sorrow, no more crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. Then He who sat on the throne said, ‘Behold, for I make all things new.'”

“All this pain, I wonder if I’ll ever find my way, I wonder if my life could really change at all…” God can use you! This passage in Revelation shows that pain will end, and that God will make things new, in fact, He will make us new.

God is continuously making us new. While we often fear that we have failed Him, and that we are not good enough to serve Him and to be worthy of Him using us, God is transforming us into something beautiful. God is the creator, and loves us dearly. He has a plan for our lives, to transform us into something beautiful.