Dust

Today is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40 days before Easter that we call Lent. As I sat in the service at RHUMC tonight and listened to Hank's sermon, I thought about how much we really need God. Hank emphasized the fact that we all go through really hard times and that God is the only thing that can help us through them. It all ended in the usual lesson of Ash Wednesday: that we are all nothing compared to God. Our lives are so worthless compared to the being that is the ruler of the entire universe. We are dust.......

Upon walking up to the alter and hearing the words "remember you are dust and to dust you shall return", I really thought about how worthless we really are. As much as we may want to believe otherwise, our lives are nothing more than a speck of dust. We're going to die, God never will. When we speak, nothing happens; when God speaks, the entire universe comes into existence. These 40 days of Lent are a time for self-denial, they are meant for us to sit down and take a good look at our lives. Lent is just a season for us to remember one thing: We are dust.........

From the Hilltop,
Hunter Odom
hunter2444@coastalnow.net
Romans 8:28