thoughts on the news of the day: dry bones

hmmm…..

            The scripture for today at church was a story from one of the Old Testament prophets.  You probably know it … God shows Ezekiel, a not very mentally stable prophet, a valley of dry bones.  God then asks Ezekiel if he can make the bones live.  And Ezekiel replies that only God can breathe life into the dry bones.  And so, God does.

            God wanted Ezekiel, and the rest of us to think about what it would be like if our lives were only dry bones – no muscle, no ligaments, no life.  And our lives can be like that sometimes.  We can be dried up, with no energy, no enthusiasm, no pep.  Then God breathes life in and everything seems to get going once again.

            God’s breath is kind of like the wind and it has been blowing pretty strong the last couple of days here in the Ozarks.  I like to think of the wind as God blowing changes into our lives.  And just like we can’t see the wind blowing, only the results of the wind; we can’t see the changes at first either.  In fact, sometimes we can’t see the changes at all, we can only see what comes after the change.

            What changes do you need to occur in your life?  What dryness needs the breath of life blown into it in order to bring it back to the land of the living?  Today, thank God for the changes in your life – they may be the beginning of a whole new vision that God has planned for you!

            hmmm…..