Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7)
God forms (not only speaking this time but getting His hands dirty) man from the ground, using mud as the clay for His most precious creation. Then God performs cosmic CPR to give the first man the very breath of life!
God didn't have any great need to make us - so it must have been that He just wanted to.
Think about that - He made you because He really wanted you as part of His creation - no other reason makes sense, does it? God isn't like us - He doesn't do things unintentionally or on a whim - He always has a purpose. Therefore, you and I must have been made for a purpose that God had in mind!
Let’s move on from the garden, and see how the Lord once again uses the ground He created for man, thousands of years later.
As he (Jesus) went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
He spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing. (John 9:1, 6-7)
In the Old Testament, the Lord is making man for the first time, reaching into the mud and forming him, then breathing life into His creation. In the New Testament, the Lord gives a man born blind sight, again using mud – I have to wonder if He was using the mud to create new eyes for this man, as sort of a throwback to the Garden of Eden?
Our God doesn't sit passively on His throne watching us dirty ourselves - He gets in the dirt with us, making us new, and even washing the dirt off our feet. He will do whatever it takes to show His love - how can we not respond in kind?
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