Friday, May 25, 2012

beauty breathed into our DNA

I have been obsessed lately with a band called Gungor..they have actually been around for a while but I just have discovered them. The creative soul that flows out of this band is so inspiring, you can't help but want to raise your hands in the middle of Starbucks while you are listening to them via ear phones and start worshiping..haha. I didn't do it but I am greatly tempted:) 
The song Beautiful Things is on repeat right now on my Itunes I can't get the line"You make beautiful things, beautiful things out of dust, you make beautiful things of us!"I am taken back at the thought that as humanity this is our heritage.  Genesis 2:5-7 "At the time God made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground—God hadn't yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground (the whole Earth was watered by underground springs)—God formed Man out of  the dust  from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive—a living soul! (the message)


I think every day we see in a small scale the Father making beautiful things from the dust of our circumstances, choices, chaos, the hardened ground of our hearts. But I think it's hard to see the beautiful in the midst of the sh** of life,  but imagine if we spend a few minutes in our day to meditate on the reality of our origins, we couldn't help but relish and rest in the overwhelming possibility of the gorgeous life the Father has breathed on us everyday. Maybe one of the traps we are snared with is living in our "dusty" selves and not in the beauty that has been breathed into our DNA. Yeah, I like that " beauty was breathed into our DNA!" I think I am going to change my post title to that.  Watch the YouTube video, and as you do I pray the Holy Spirit breathes His beauty into our dustiness today!