Shaking The Quarry Dust

Friday, June 21, 2019

When I was in college, I worked as a security guard. One of the places I worked was a quarry. Before I could go home, I had to spend time shaking the dust off of my clothes. Shaking off dust is a scriptural thing; Messiah told His disciples to shake the dust from their feet; Paul shook the dust from his garments. In the case of Paul and the disciples, the dust was specifically linked to rejection. Being rejected in your life is like a cloud of dust settling on you. You may still be walking around with the remnants of that rejection - a spirit of fear, anger, bitterness, inferiority, depression, etc. But I couldn't go home from that quarry with all that dust on my clothes. And you can't enter the streets of heaven or the blessings of the abundant life covered with dust. Thus it's time to shake off whatever dust has affected your life, your soul, and your emotions! Shake off that rejection, sin, guilt, fear, and that gloom! Shake off whatever you have to shake off. For you were never meant to go through life covered with dust!

From Message #1281 - Shake the Dust