During my quiet time with the Lord today, I noticed how the tiny dust particles floated in the air as the early morning sun shined through the windows. With seemingly no rhyme or reason, or sense of order to them, they floated carefree in the air in front of me. Filling my lungs with air, I blew out and upon them, expecting them to float away from me with the puff of air, but they didn’t. They moved faster, and even switched directions, but they remained independent in their motion and without an apparent order to me.
We were created from dust, and will one day return to dust. At times in my life, I have even reached points where I felt as worthless and purposeless as dust. I had often allowed myself to believe that my purpose was to be only walked upon. I had believed that I was stationary, heavy, burdened, only to be moved when others took the time to shovel me up and dump me in another place only to be trodden upon again.
Maybe you know the weight of that mindset too. Feel it, but then move through this with me…
As dust, even a puff from someone’s lungs can move it. A breath sets the dust into motion in the air. Others moved me in that way, and I let them. But what about MY lungs? My eyes had been blinded to see that my lungs moved people too. By only focusing my perspective on the ground and the piles of dust around me, I missed the most important thing which had the power to move the dust — the breath of life.
What I was missing when I only saw myself and sometimes others as dust was the understanding that God had not created us AS dust, but FROM dust, and then he blew his breath of life into our lifeless bodies. God blew his spirit into us, and animated our bodies as potential houses for himself, dwelling within us. With this powerful shift in our perspective, we can see that we are not merely dust, but that we are also SPIRIT with the breath of life within us.
We carry the power of God within us, and have been given the power to move the other dust particles around us with the breath in our lungs. There is no human alive that is completely stationary in their body, mind and spirit, but the Enemy wants people to believe that they are. Instead, we are all as light and free as dust particles in the air, and when we begin to understand that we have his spirit within us, we are able to see that the breath in our lungs moves others into motion too.
The Hebrew word for spirit is ruach, which means “wind, breath, air, spirit.” In the Jewish culture, Ruach hakodesh, “Holy Spirit,” is the divine force or influence of God, which is seen through acts of prophecy, guidance, creation, and a “Spirit of Holiness”.
LET’S GROW – Ask God to help you shift your perspective from being an immobile dust particle on the ground… to being a singular, unique dust particle in the air… to being a complete and healed human being who houses Ruach hakodesh. As children of God, we have been given the gift of God’s breath of life that sets dust particles into motion. We carry his divine force and influence, and through prophecy, guidance, creation, and his Spirit of Holiness, we are able to live our lives with a purpose to set the dust particles free and into motion.
Then Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you [as My representatives].” And when He said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of anyone they are forgiven [because of their faith]; if you retain the sins of anyone, they are retained [and remain unforgiven because of their unbelief].” – John 20:21-23 AMP
(Originally posted on Stephanie K Ford Facebook, 11/5/2025)