Dry Bones

Here I am again... I am trying to get over my writer's block. For a long time I just felt like I didn't have anything to say. Nothing even sparking in my head waiting to be ignited into words. But it's been coming back little by little. This week I have been reading in Ezekeil 37 about dry bones. I love that passage. Israel says to the Lord " Our bones are dried up, our hope is lost and we are indeed cut off." They have three complints and the Lord replies with three sets of three answers. I just love the extravagance of God. Israel: Three issues. The Lord: Three times three responses. He says, " I will open your graves, raise you from your graves and bring you into the land of Israel. Then He says, "I will put my Spirit in you, you shall live and I will place you in your own land" And finally He declares,"You will know that I am the Lord, I have spoken and I will do it."

So even when I feel a little dry or a little lifeless or a little bit out of touch or cut off or all of them at once God has a response.

And as I look deeper into what God says here I see three things He promises to do for us.

First: He changes where we are: he digs us up, takes us out of the dirt and puts us in a new location.

Second: He changes who we are. Now we have His life, His breathe, His spirit with in us

Third: He changes what we know: We will know that He is Lord, that He speaks and that He acts on behalf of his people.

H