Day 252: Ez 36:1 - 38:22

We find in chapter 37 one of the most unusual passages in the entire Bible. Ezekiel is sent by God to a valley full of dry bones. Bear in mind, these aren't simply dead bodies, these are people who have been dead for a really really long time and whose bones have been scattered and spread all over the valley. As God speaks, he tells the prophet to speak to the bones and command them to come together. And incredibly, all of the bones find their partners and begin rebuilding skeletons. Then as the skeletons come together, sinew and muscle and then eventually skin forms on top of the skeletons forming entire bodies! Now, in my opinion, we could stop right here and that would be an amazing feat, but God takes it one step further. God tells the prophet to speak and command life to enter the bodies. So again, as Ezekiel speaks, breath enters each and every body and forms an army of living breathing soldiers out of an enormous pile of bones! God wants us to know that he can work with anything as long as we're willing to use it. We may see times where it feels like all we have left is a heaping pile of bones, but if we will be obedient and listen to what God has to say, he can give us the power to command those bones to form an entire army ready to follow His orders.

- Lord, take this pile of bones that I have and make something of it that will further Your kingdom. Help me to not sit around moping about the pile of useless bones in front of me, and give me the power to speak life into those bones!