Glorious Dust,
a meditation on a meditation
Being of dust and ashes, a value less than none, a thimble full of dirt in the midst of everything ‘else’, have I right to anything but being swept up and disposed of?
Stardust makes us more worthy dust? Some say this is our beginning. On which scales shall we measure that better value.
The world demands everything despite having established its reality of zero worth. What logic is there to this?
Yet in my heart there is another reality pulling and tearing at my existence. Thankfully!
Being glorious in creation, worthy of the love of the Creator and in turn, His death on a cross to redeem what we dusty folk could not do for ourselves, have I right to despair in life as ash?
For we are both in reality. We then inhabit as His Children the lofty place of blessing as well as the earthly reality of sinful flesh and dust. We know this from the Word of God, we know this within in His presence in prayer.
Those who will not acknowledge Him have no choice. All becomes the blowing ash through the winds of relentless time.
The cross is the place of mediation. Both glory and insignificance became one.
We can know ourselves within, being both, as glorious dust. We tremble at the thought.
Thanks to John Parsons’ work in the mediation on the Days of Awe, and the depth of inspiration within hebrews4christians.com
