Pinched Off From A Piece Of Clay

Job 33:6

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.  

Well now, doesn't that just put things into perspective!! 

We came from clay, plain old dirt! Ha!!

Made by God, creator of the universe, in His image, we were made from what a dog pees on!!!

You still think high thoughts of yourself?

But, God wanted you, loved you and made you!

2 Corinthians 3:5

Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 

1 Corinthians 15:45-47

45 Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual.

47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Christ Our Ransom

Psalms 49:7-8

7 Truly no man can ransom another, or give to God the price of his life, 

8 for the ransom of their life is costly and can never suffice, 

Job 33:23-24

23 If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, 

24 and he is merciful to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; 

Our Mission

2 Corinthians 3:2-3

2 You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all.

3 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.