Little Lamb, Little Lamb Who hath made thee?

I was recently at a meeting in which someone had the gall to ask “who do you think you are? Why should I listen to you?”

My initial reaction was “Well let me tell you who I am. I am Pastor J. Lillie I’ve been….”

Then God asked me “Who do you think you are?”

And as He asked it these verses came to mind.

“Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person.

 Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he placed the man he had made…The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it.” Ge. 2:7,8,15

“The Lord is like a father to his children,
    tender and compassionate to those who fear him.

 For he knows how weak we are;
    he remembers we are only dust.” Psalm 103:13,14

“For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ.

 We now have this light shining in our hearts, but we ourselves are like fragile clay jars containing this great treasure.^[b] This makes it clear that our great power is from God, not from ourselves.” 2 Cor. 4:6,7

I am a created being made from the dust of the earth. From dust I come and to dust I will return. My life span in this body is 70 years and a few. I am a sinner saved by grace totally irredeemable apart from the miracle of the cross of Christ and the miracle of His resurrection. All my righteousness or good works is nothing more than filthy rags . I have no real glory apart from what He gives me.

Who am I?

I am nothing more than a dust kiddie, a child of dust roaming the earth looking for a place to land, an empty vessel with nothing inside but generations of dust and death to my credit. Under my own power I can never become anything more than dust and death and my friend neither can you. 

Do you ever feel like me, a dust kiddie? What do you do with those feelings?

Check in for the next portion of our study tomorrow!