"Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."
A picture of death and what happens to us at that time. I use this verse so often, I felt the need to stop here and address the truth of it. Let us see what Scripture teaches us about death and dying. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was - from dust was man made and unto dust shall it return for the physcial body; We go back to Genesis to see the beginning. God took the dust of the earth and made man. He made man in His Own image. And this man is made of flesh (skin), muscle, tissue, bone; shaped and formed after God with a head, two arms, torso, two legs. And that which makes man to function is the blood; Leviticus 17:11, 'For the life of the flesh is in the blood'. Yet, it is the breath of life that God gives to have life in this flesh. 'And God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.' Ezekiesl was commandment to prophesy the bones to come together; but they were not living yet. God commanded him then to 'call for the 4 winds' to breath life into these dead bones.' Thus life is from God, sustained by God and for God. We are not given life to please ourselves; to live according to what we desire, but to live for what He desires with us. Who are you living for? Because after this life, the soul goes to its eternal destination; the breath of life goes back to God Who gave it; and the dust returns to the earth as it was. This flesh shall not always be. Why then is there so much vanity about that which shall not be?
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