Daddy Understands Your Dust

Posted on by Jennifer Arimborgo

Old Treasures on Tuesdays 👑


It’s audio devo day! Today, Daddy God wants to reassure your heart that He understands your struggles. He gets you. So get comfy, sit back, and allow Him to minister to you as you listen here:

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“As parents feel for their children, God feels for those who fear him” (Ps. 103:13, MSG).

“Because God knows how we’re made, God remembers we’re just dust” (Ps. 103:14, CEB).

“For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like we are, yet without sin” (Heb. 4:15, KJV).

You and I are dust. God knows it, and He feels so deeply for us. Our verses for today reveal two essential components of His compassion for us. The first one is His Father’s heart for us. As a Daddy, He feels intensely for His little ones. His spirit is moved passionately within Him when we get hurt. His soul gets stirred up when we struggle. His first and greatest impulse is not to chastise us, but to reach down and to tenderly help us.

He knows that we are dust. He also created us, right? The One who designed us and formed us out of dirt remembers. Every single second, He remembers. Formed from dust, we are vulnerable. Formed from dust, our frames are fragile. He knows. The dust He shaped into human beings needs a whole lot of help from Him. And His heart boils with desire to provide just that!

There’s more. There’s a second, vitally important component of His compassion for us. It’s His personal, firsthand experience of our vulnerabilities. Jesus is keenly aware of all the extreme difficulties we undergo as humans in this fallen world. After all, He’s been here, walking in our shoes. He Himself has endured every possible human pain conceivable. His empathy for us, as we face it all, runs deep.

Jesus your Intercessor feels what you are feeling. He is directly involved in every moment of every one of your struggles. Listen again to His word on this. “For we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like we are…” (Heb. 4:15, KJV).

“Infirmities” here means our weaknesses; our feebleness. Jesus is touched with the feeling of them; with the feeling of what we walk through. What we feel, He feels. As our Great High Priest, His effectiveness as our Intercessor stems from so perfectly, personally understanding our frailties. As He is profoundly moved by what we are suffering, prayers for us flow unceasingly to the Father from His heart on our behalf.

Jesus gets how hard it is here on Planet Earth. He gets how difficult it sometimes is to push past our emotions and praise Him. He knows, intimately, what it is to struggle with fears that seem to hold onto us with a death grip. The Scriptures do not exaggerate when they state, “For we do not have a High Priest who is unable to sympathize and understand our weaknesses and temptations, but One who has been tempted [knowing exactly how it feels to be human] in every respect as we are…” (Heb. 4:15, AMP).

He has such deep patience with us as He beholds us from the perspective of His own human experience. He knows. He deeply, achingly knows. As the Eternal One who is both outside time and inside it, He remembers so freshly. His heart is stirred with deep, deep compassion for what you and I are walking through right now.

You know what the other beautiful thing about this is? “He has become the high priest forever” (Heb. 6:20, NCV). Forever. This immense compassion flowing from His heart for us will never stop. For as long as our hearts beat, His own heart will rise up in deep love for us in our weaknesses. For as long as we have breath, there will be abundant mercy and strengthening for every one of our struggles. The riches of His grace will ceaselessly flow from His Spirit to ours.

Forever and ever.

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What do you sense Holy Spirit speaking to your heart about your vulnerabilities as one made from dust?

35 thoughts on “Daddy Understands Your Dust”

      9. That is great Jen, I am glad to hear how things have been with you; I am very happy for you and your adventures, and all the best with your exciting school plans 🙌😆

        life on my end had been terrific, and each day that goes by I cease and cherish because as I grow, I realize how precious life is ☺️😇🙏🙏

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      11. Wow, that is so so kind of you Jennifer, I am deeply blown away by your gratitude my friend 💙💙💙.

        Thank you for your wonderful prayers 🙏😇🙏😇. May GOD continue to guide and bless you and your loved ones, and fill you with the exalting grace to live each day with love and thankfulness in your heart, continuing to move the souls of those who will see your light 🤗🤗.

        I am happy to hear from you again as always my friend, it’s been a while 🤟😆💌💌.

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      12. Yes, my new schedule with school is keeping me busy. But I am loving it, thank you Jesus!

        So grateful for those blessings you speak over me, received with a thankful heart! Grace and peace to you in abundance as well.

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      13. Thanks alot for your update Jennifer 🤟
        😄💙.

        Amen to your love for what’s happening on the schedule 🙌😆🙌. It’s beyond endearing to receive your uplifting thoughts and I embrace your tremendous GOD-loving gracefulness with all of my heart; you have touched me yet again my friend ☺️☺️☺️

        Much love to you, always 🤗😇🙏🙏.

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      14. Aw I am SO glad! Even if I am only able to check in once in a while due to all that Jesus has me up to these days, every time I do and I hear from you, I too am so blessed in spirit! May He fill your day and your week with His goodness my friend!

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      15. I am deeply humbled by gracious embrace Jenn 🥰. I am smiling from ear to ear and even though you are not as active on here like before, nothing has changed with the adoration I have for you my friend 💌☺️🤗🫂.

        Thank you so much for the dear friend and very precious light of GOD that you are to me, may your week be filled with his goodness aswell and takecare until we catch up again my friend 💌🙏😇🌹🌹.

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      17. Awww, you always make me feel so welcomed and appreciated 🙌🤩🤩💟.

        My dear Jennifer, your words mean more to me than you can ever imagine. You are welcome and thank you tremendously from the bottom of my heart for invigorating me and my life aswell with the awesome graciousness of GOD our Holy Father 🙏😇🙏.

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      18. Even though I am reading this well after you wrote it, it’s amazing how powerful both kindness, and words that convey it, are in such a timeless way that stretches past dates on the calendar. I am so warmed in my heart, finding this now. (I am finally getting a chance to catch up with everything on here. It’s been a whole new level of NONSTOP for me since I started school in August, keep praying for me!)

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      19. An extra happy hello to you my sweet friend 💕🥰.

        I am absolutely blown-away by your remarks; they resonate with me so deeply and affectionately Jennifer 😍. I am smiling and it makes me very happy that you finally got to read my sincere thoughts of admiring respect and luv for you 🙌🤗🤗🌹. I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments, dates on a calendar are just numbers when it comes to virtues not determined and bound by time, systemic or superficial factors.

        It makes me super glad that your precious heart has been warmed Jen 💙😘💙; you taking the time to let me know how terrific my comment made you feel means alot to me considering your non-stop flow of activity stemming from the fact that you have started school and there’s a million other things you could’ve be doing 💌💘💘.

        I will definitely pray for you and will always tremendously admire you; it is beyond beautiful that you are my friend 😇😇. Your pata is one happy pata right now 🤣🤣😂

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      21. “Smiling with a happy chuckle. Merry Christmas, dear Troy! I pray that your celebration is filled to overflowing with the closeness and intimacy and peace of Jesus our Savior. You are so very loved!”
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        That’s absolutely cute 🤗🤩🫶🫶; you’ve made my day with your heartfelt embrace Jennifer. I can’t thank you enough for your prays and wishes 😇💌.

        Merry Christmas to you also my friend 🎄🎁😆🎅❄️. May you and yours, as well as all who you encounter, also be blessed abundantly this season with the greatest gift of peace, joy, love and harmony by the continued light of the Holy Spirit and the virtues of his begotten son Jesus 🙏😇🙏.

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      23. It moves me to know that you feel the same way I did when I read your beautiful words Jennifer 🥰. Thanks alot for your new year wishes, you always make me so happy ☺️☺️💕.

        Happy New Year to you too 🎆🥳😄🎊🎈

        May 2025 for you be an incredible one where you will accomplish more great things, be loved more, experience remarkable times, create more remarkable bonds, and least but not last, filled with more Jesus haha

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      24. Life has been even more packed to the gills and I have been able to get on and comment even less at this point, but my heart is always here! Praying you are overwhelmingly blessed today. God’s goodness brimming over, spilling over, and poured out on you in ways you could never imagine!

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      25. Thank you very much for your beautiful and ever-comforting remarks Jennifer 🙌😄😇💙💙. It’s kind of surreal seeing your comment after such a long time not hearing from you, but at least my Jenn is back and it’s such a lovely feeling to both be uplifted by your precious grace and also to know that you are well 💌🤗🥰🫶.

        May you and your loved one’s blessings of the day be bountiful and your days ahead be made prosperously fulfilling by the glorious love of our GOD and heavenly creator 🙏😇🙏. You are tremendously beloved my friend 💌💌

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      26. Once again, I find true joy in reading your words, Troy. So glad I got a chance to say hi. It may be a while again until the next time, but I will always eventually get a chance in God’s perfect timing, during this nonstop season He has me in! I am reminded of the old song, “Friends Are Friends Forever When the Lord Is the Lord of Them.” Have you seen any of The Chosen? Jesus makes quips in there about how to His Father, everything is always “soon,” made me smile. Hugs and blessings!

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      27. Awww my heart is endeared with extreme amounts of affection and gratitude to know how my words make you feel; there is no feeling like it Jennifer, and I am one thankful Pata 😆🥰. It’s truly beautiful that you consider these moments that brings you together with your friends as perfect timing due to your otherwise nonstop devotion to what the lord has brought your heart to over the course of these recent months, and what the old song reminds you of is extremely touching and it is absolutely precious to me my friend 😍

        Warm hugs back to you Jenn 🤗🤗🤗, all the best to you, your friend and loved ones. Please take care until our next inevitable time that’s soon to come 😹😇🙏💌

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