TO DUST WE RETURN
The story of the Old Testament is the story of humans failing. Despite God's refusal to abandon the creation that rebelled against him, the humans he chose to walk alongside proved fragile and mortal. Not long after Adam and Eve left Eden, the people that God formed from dust to rule his good creation turned to jealousy and murder.
Despite his patience with humanity, they turned farther and farther into themselves, plunging the earth they were meant to make beautiful into the oil slick of corruption and unmaking.
Even the washing clean of the earth in the great flood couldn't purge the effects of Adam's choice from humanity. As God walked alongside Abraham and cultivated the family of promise through its generations, each human died. There were pinpricks of light -- a hope that the human race that turned its back on God could actually follow faithfully. But despite the successive successes, people still died.
The great faithful men and women who worked to undo the corruption brought on humanity by Adam's failure couldn't escape Adam's road. Their steps led to the yawning mouth of death's cave. The inevitability of their unmaking was simply accepted over the course of the centuries, because nothing could be done about it.
For centuries God's people walked with their Creator and he walked with them. Generation after generation, God had to renew his relationship with humans because humans die.
Generation after generation humans came into this world, met their God, lived in trusting faith, and then died. The curse of Adam hovered over all people -- each returned to the very dust from which they were taken.
The picture of the Old Testament is a God who walks alongside mortal humans from the day of their birth to the day they return to the dust. Humans die, yes. But GOd has not abandoned them.
The story of the Old Testament is the story of humans failing. Despite God's refusal to abandon the creation that rebelled against him, the humans he chose to walk alongside proved fragile and mortal. Not long after Adam and Eve left Eden, the people that God formed from dust to rule his good creation turned to jealousy and murder.
Despite his patience with humanity, they turned farther and farther into themselves, plunging the earth they were meant to make beautiful into the oil slick of corruption and unmaking.
Even the washing clean of the earth in the great flood couldn't purge the effects of Adam's choice from humanity. As God walked alongside Abraham and cultivated the family of promise through its generations, each human died. There were pinpricks of light -- a hope that the human race that turned its back on God could actually follow faithfully. But despite the successive successes, people still died.
The great faithful men and women who worked to undo the corruption brought on humanity by Adam's failure couldn't escape Adam's road. Their steps led to the yawning mouth of death's cave. The inevitability of their unmaking was simply accepted over the course of the centuries, because nothing could be done about it.
For centuries God's people walked with their Creator and he walked with them. Generation after generation, God had to renew his relationship with humans because humans die.
Generation after generation humans came into this world, met their God, lived in trusting faith, and then died. The curse of Adam hovered over all people -- each returned to the very dust from which they were taken.
The picture of the Old Testament is a God who walks alongside mortal humans from the day of their birth to the day they return to the dust. Humans die, yes. But GOd has not abandoned them.
TO DUST WE RETURN
The story of the Old Testament is the story of humans failing. Despite God's refusal to abandon the creation that rebelled against him, the humans he chose to walk alongside proved fragile and mortal. Not long after Adam and Eve left Eden, the people that God formed from dust to rule his good creation turned to jealousy and murder.
Despite his patience with humanity, they turned farther and farther into themselves, plunging the earth they were meant to make beautiful into the oil slick of corruption and unmaking.
Even the washing clean of the earth in the great flood couldn't purge the effects of Adam's choice from humanity. As God walked alongside Abraham and cultivated the family of promise through its generations, each human died. There were pinpricks of light -- a hope that the human race that turned its back on God could actually follow faithfully. But despite the successive successes, people still died.
The great faithful men and women who worked to undo the corruption brought on humanity by Adam's failure couldn't escape Adam's road. Their steps led to the yawning mouth of death's cave. The inevitability of their unmaking was simply accepted over the course of the centuries, because nothing could be done about it.
For centuries God's people walked with their Creator and he walked with them. Generation after generation, God had to renew his relationship with humans because humans die.
Generation after generation humans came into this world, met their God, lived in trusting faith, and then died. The curse of Adam hovered over all people -- each returned to the very dust from which they were taken.
The picture of the Old Testament is a God who walks alongside mortal humans from the day of their birth to the day they return to the dust. Humans die, yes. But GOd has not abandoned them.
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