Can These Bones Live?

God takes Ezekiel to a valley full of "very many" "very dry" bones.

God asks, "Can these bones live?"

Ezekiel replies, "You know, Lord."

Right place.
            Right question.
                        Right answer.

Right place--this valley so full of death?

Yes. God needed Ezekiel there at that precise moment.

God has a plan. It reveals God's unfathomable love. It involves resurrection life. It involves Ezekiel.

Right question--can life come out of such carnage, destruction, sorrow and death?

"very many" "very dry".

A situation beyond human hope or help.

Yet the Father always partners with an obedient servant.

Ezekiel.

Moses who stood in the gap.

David. Isaiah. Jeremiah. Daniel. Peter. Paul. . . .

Jesus, our Great High Priest, Living Intercessor at the right hand of the Father.

Right answer--God alone knows and enables.

Issues of life and death require a human mediator--called, empowered, equipped, enabled and filled by The Word and Spirit of God.

God gives Ezekiel the words to speak. Ezekiel speaks them. God gives Spirit and Breath. Ezekiel declares it on God's behalf.

We live in a time of death and destruction among the nations coming in a manner reminiscent of the Black Death.

Can life come out of this death?

Can the nations be healed and restored?

Yes. As God empowers His intercessors to declare His life. His hopes, His glory, His victory will come over this present death.

Be of good cheer, "I have overcome the world." "I AM the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will never die."
Jesus living in and through His people--His church--will bring His resurrection life into the midst of this current suffering and death.

These bones will live again.
 
Blessings!