Day 13: Beautiful Things

 

This has been one of my favorite songs since the summer, because musically it is very different.  The chorus of the song repeats this phrase:

You make beautiful things

You make beautiful things out of dust 

Dust is something that we try to eliminate in our homes.  Once a layer of it settles on our shelves or wooden floors, we are quick to grab a swiffer and get rid of it.  We are ashamed of the dust.  But God, sees potential in the dust.

At any time in life it is easy to struggle with finding where our value comes from.  We constantly try to find it in tangible things - the other people around us, our academic performance, our ability to be the life of the party.  The list is endless.  The search for value in worldly things is a draining process - we always have to go back for more to be filled up again.  

Our true value is not about who we are, but about who God is.  God saw potential in the dust to become His beautiful children.  God saw potential in something as small and seemingly unimportant as dust; He sees potential in us because He sees who we are and who we are becoming.

Your value is constant.  When you are alone, or when you are in a room full of people - you are still valued the same in God's heart.  

Another line from the song says this: Out of chaos life is being found in You.  Even when it seems unbearable, even when we lose our footing, there is still a promise and a hope in God.  A promise that He will not leave us unshaped and un-molded, but that He has new things in store for us.  A hope for the future.

~SP