Psalm 103:14 TPT
You know all about us, inside and out. You are mindful that we're made from dust.
Psalm 103:14 AMPC
For He knows our frame, He [earnestly] remembers and imprints [on His heart] that we are dust.
Psalm 103:14 NLT
For He knows how weak we are; He remembers we are only dust.
Many times we overestimate ourselves, thinking we're stronger or wiser than we really are - only to come crashing down in abject failure.
But it's no surprise to God.
He knows how weak we are - He knows how we're put together.
Have you ever been shocked at your own or someone else's fall from grace?
We read, in amazement, of "great" leaders who, in reality, are not what they appear to be.
The Lord, however, isn't phased.
As our Creator, He is fully aware of the frailty of our human flesh - which is just dust!
Genesis 2:7 AMPC
Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being.
Without God's life giving breath, dust is all we are.
Genesis 3:19 AMPC
In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you shall return.
At funerals ministers recite this fact: "ashes to ashes, dust to dust" as the dead are buried or cremated.
Of course, some humans aren't content with this and look for immortality via transhumanism - a fusing of man and machine.
Ignoring the only possible way to "beat" death, through belief in Jesus Christ, they strive to live forever without God.
Psalm 2:1-3 TPT
How dare the nations plan a rebellion. Their foolish plots are futile! [2] Look at how the power brokers of the world rise up to hold their summit as the rulers scheme and confer together against Yahweh and His Anointed King, saying: [3] "Let's come together and break away from the Creator. Once and for all let's cast off these controlling chains of God and his Christ!"
God knows who we are, and laughs at attempts to live without Him:
Psalm 2:4 TPT
God-Enthroned merely laughs at them; the Sovereign One mocks their madness!
This mound of dust is so glad to boast in Jesus and the eternal life He's freely given me.
You can have your mechanical AI body, I'll take the new immortal one Jesus has made for me to live in forever!
1 Corinthians 15:54 NLT
Then, when our dying bodies have been transformed into bodies that will never die, this Scripture will be fulfilled: "Death is swallowed up in victory.
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