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10/11/2024
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"I will put my Spirit in you and you will live” (37:14). The Lord showed the prophet Ezekiel a vision of bones that were “very dry” (37:2). Israel was in exile and everything seemed hopeless, dead. But God promised that their sin-damaged circumstances were not the end. He would breathe new life into them and their bones would live – a renewed creation. The divided nation of Israel would become one (37:17), and they would all have “one shepherd” – the Messiah from David’s line (37:24).
“Can these bones live?” (37:3). Only God in His life-giving power can renew what has been destroyed by sin. When we let go of what is dead, we open our hearts to receive resurrection: “life in His name” (John 20:31).