Get your own dirt

Morning: Psalms 61, 62; Jeremiah 2:1-13; Romans 1:16-25

Evening: Psalm 68:1-36; John 4:43-54

“Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” Jesus’s words are a telling indictment of every age that insists on miraculous evidence of God in the world. As if there were not enough mysterious, miraculous signs already! But humans are pretentious; we take credit for creating things that we did not. We patent Mother Nature. There is an old joke ... An inventor says to God: “I can make a human out of dirt.” God asks, “Where will you get the dirt?” The inventor points, “Right here.” God’s head shakes: “Uh-uh, no way ... Get your own dirt!”