Shopping

Shopping spree is fun.

We shop like crazy,

Often buying things we don't need.

In Genesis 3, 

Our First Parents did the same,

They had shopped the thing they didn't need. 

Satan persuaded Eve to doubt God's word.

He promised her that her eyes would be opened,

That she would be like God...

Eve made the wrong choice,

She ate,

So did her husband Adam,

And sin made its way into the world.

Our First Parents had their eyes opened,

They were wise... very much in their own eyes,

But they didn't become like God.

Our First Parents ran away ashamed,

Hiding themselves from God.

But God in His mercy and grace sought them,

And clothed them in garments made from animal skins,

Foreshadowing that Jesus Christ His Son would die for sins.

All through the years, 

Men and women continued to make the wrong choices,

And went down the wrong path.

Men had tried,

And had continued to try,

But they could never be like God,

No matter how hard they tried...

Salvation is only by God's grace through His gift of faith alone.

God our Savior is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Seek Him now, 

And don't shop simply.

The Worthless Dust

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7)

• God chose dust as His medium to create Adam. He took the worthless dust and made it into something priceless; He made the first man from the worthless dust. He then used the bone of the first man to make the first woman.


• You, and I, and every other person, are made from the same worthless dust and to the worthless dust we will return. Yet God has made something beautiful from the worthless dust of our lives.


• The fact that God used the worthless dust to create humans should make us think twice before labeling someone as failure, loser, worthless, incompetent, unlovable, stupid, useless, and the likes.


• Remember, any person who may annoy or irritate you, whom you may eagerly want to get rid of, is made by God out of the worthless dust to display His glory.


• Oh Lord, all too often we want to quickly ignore or dismiss difficult people around us. Help us to be open to learn from You through them and to see Your glory.


• Let us be merciful and just to others, since we all come from the same worthless dust. From dust we came, and to dust we will return. Yet God has made something beautiful out of our worthless dust.