Did you know that the Hebrew name for Adam literally means "Earth?" By earth, it is not meant the third planet from the sun. Rather, it has to do more-so with the very soil you I walk on-- that is, dirt. Pondering this little fact, I thought it odd how often we are tempted to think more of ourselves than we ought. How is it that we manage to become so prideful when our origins remind us that we are nothing more than dirt? Oh, great things can come from dirt. Great trees containing delicious and colorful fruit abound everywhere because of dirt. Likewise, you and I are capable of doing amazing things. Yet at the end of the day, you and I are still Dirt. Perhaps even our Lord, whom Paul calls "The Last Adam" recognized this of Himself. Therefor, when men came calling Him "Good Teacher," He would receive no such praise. Rather, the Last Adam, recognizing His own humanity, rebuked the man, saying there was none good but God alone. The Lord of Glory in His incarnation saw Himself as nothing more than merely Dirt. Ought we not do the same?
