Ezekiel 37-39
Chapter 37 of
Ezekiel is probably one of the most popular sections of his writings. God led
Ezekiel to a place where it looks like a battle occurred many years before.
There are dry bones scattered through the land. Where men had fought to their
dying breath, only sun bleached bones remained. The flesh was gone, only bones
remained. There was no life in the valley, but God told Ezekiel to prophesy to
the bones; to share the word of the Lord with them.
Ezekiel
prophesied to the bones and tendons, flesh, and skin covered the bones as they
came together. "Then he said to me,
“Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the
Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these
slain, that they may live.’”" (Ezekiel 37:9, NIV) The breathe came and
the bodies came to life. We are not told what happened to the army brought back
to life by the breath of God spoken into them by Ezekiel, but God has a message
in the miracle. Though Israel was dead, the land abandoned, the temple
destroyed, God was going to bring life where it seemed there was no life.
When we look
around and it seems like everywhere we look it is spiritually dead, we can
remember that God can breathe life where there seems to be no life. If He can
resurrect dry bones on the valley floor, He can breathe life into our lives,
into our churches, into our communities, and into our world. God is a God of
life. Death is a result of sin and Jesus won the victory over sin and death
when He came out of the grave that first Easter morning. God wants to bring
abundant life into your life. He wants to breathe life into the dry areas of
your life. He wants to fill you and show you that He is God.
"I will
put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land.
Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares
the Lord.’”" (Ezekiel 37:14, NIV)
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