Dark and dry

Have you ever tried to walk through a dark room that is devoid of any light...not even light from clock? We stumble along, tripping over things, stumping our toes, falling down? We often curse the darkness as being at fault? When in reality only we are to blame. Every room has light...it just depends on how hard you look. The same can go for our lives. Each of us is either surrounded by and living in darkness...or living in the light.

The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” I said, “Sovereign Lord , you alone know.” (Ezekiel 37:1-3 NIV)

Does your life look like the valley of dry bones? Are there dry dusty bones all around? The sin in our lives resembles the dry bones.


Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord ! This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord .’ ” So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. 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, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’ ” So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army. Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord , when I open your graves and bring you up from them. 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 37:4-14 NIV)

There is only one solution for the dry bones of our lives. Jesus! He was sent as a child...who would grow into a man who would save the entire world on a cross! He was crucified...hen was dead...but there was no grave ever made that could hold him! Sins power over us died with him on the cross. Have dry bones in your life? Give them to the one who can make them alive again!

I for one am glad I serve a god that the grave couldn't hold!