This one may be a stretch...but, hear me out. I know this isn't the intent of the chapter, but I did feel nudged today, and here's my prophecy...hahaha.
So many times in life, we find ourselves in a storm. Or in a tough situation, or even in a spot that we think we can't get out of. It doesn't even need to be something big. Just a situation where we feel trapped. But, God is so much bigger than that. In this chapter he takes the most literal interpretation of a bad situation, being the dried out, bleached bones. There's probably no worse condition that a person could be in right?.......and he breathes life back into them, and completely changes their situation. He does it through Ezekiel in this case, but really the important thing is that he can do it. He can do anything. He saw those bones. He knew the story. He was there. He was waiting for his plan to be fulfilled. (just like Israel, which the bones are the metaphor for)
My lesson for the day. Don't underestimate the power of God, or his involvement in my situation. Whatever that may be. Nothing is too big, or too small for God to work in.
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I like your perspective, I definitely was not heading that way with my thoughts. But it is so true, yet so often I don't ask him to be invovled in my every little details. I am wrestling for the past year with my job, it has become very consuming. I think one of the devil's tools may be making our lives so busy with stuff that we either squeeze God our or for those who don't know him never find him. I need to do the oppposite, get him in and squeeze out the things he does not find important that are filling my time.
ReplyDelete28 Then the nations will know that I the Lord make Israel holy, when my sanctuary is among them forever.’
I look forward to the day the nations will know who God is, right now the world seems to be a mess.
knut