Thought of the Day: Dust

Most people are familiar with the Bible's teaching that Adam, the first human, was made from dust:

Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils, and the man became a living person (Genesis 2:7)

Today I was reading Psalm 103 and had a thought when I got to this verse:

The LORD is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him. For he knows how weak we are, he remembers we are only dust (103:13-14)

My thought was just a simple reflection - that we really are dust! I've heard people say how stupid it sounds that we are made from the dust of the earth, because actually we are extremely complex. It's true, we are indeed extremely complex. That shows God in itself. But at the same time, in simple terms, we are also nothing but dust. That's what dust is - dead skin cells. Saying that we're dust shows that we're still very fragile, despite our complexity, which is what's being highlighted in this psalm.