Less Than The Dust

          What does it mean to be less than the dust of the Earth?  It means recognizing that God is infinitely more powerful than ourselves, and that even on our very best days we know absolutely nothing about what's really going on.

          We so often assume that we know far more than we really do.  The stability of our lives paves the way for a façade of control that really does not exist.  "God...has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another...and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another. (Mosiah 2:20-21)" 

          We wander from decision to decision, moment to moment, with the assumption that life and freedom and structured existence are the natural way of the universe, when in reality even our ability to breath and move of our own accord is constantly supported by the power of God.  Without Him we would collapse into the ball of chaotic matter that we were before He created us.  Even the vilest human being is propped up from moment to moment by the hand of a loving God.  Such is His love that He allows us to make mistakes.  Such is His love that there is nothing beyond His ability to heal and repair if we come unto Him.  Such is His love that the only reason He would not save us is if we chose not to be saved.  He doesn't count the number of chances He gives us, only the number of His children who still need them, which is all of us.

          Scientists send rockets to the moon, and yet mankind has still failed to find an indisputable definition of what it means to be human.  If we still don't understand ourselves we don't really understand the universe either, as much as we might think that we do.  So often we strive to set the course of our own lives when we don't we understand what it means to be alive in the first place.  We try to make decisions about who we will be, where we will work, and who we will marry, all based our personal flawed, biased, infinitesimally small data set of sample size one.  There is One who understands the true order of things and what we really desire.  He loves us with infinite love.  He is the only one capable of making the decisions that will place us in the happiest of circumstances.  The only intelligent course of action is to let Him take over.  Make the decisions that He asks us to make.  Trust Him with all our heart, might, mind, and strength, and recognize that the only reason we ever accomplish anything good is because He empowers us to act.

          The reason your life doesn't turn out the way you expect is because your perceptions and expectations are naturally flawed.  God has a perfect plan for you, an imperfect individual.   He never leaves your happiness to chance.  There is no such thing as bad luck, only a bad understanding of what is ideal.  If we truly understood the purpose of the circumstances of our lives, we would never trade places with anyone.

          In short, understanding that you are less than the dust of the Earth is the only way to know how much you matter to the single most important being in the entire universe.  If there is one thing in life that I am sure about, it is this:

 

Everything about your life is because God loves you.