Our skeletons have been in the closet a “long time” and we have grown comfortable leaving them there. Why is God asking about something that’s so dead to us now? We learned our lesson, and moved on – things don’t always work out. Aren’t we supposed to let bygones be bygones? We haven’t had hope for those old bones for years.
Yet, God is waiting for an answer and we are on the spot? “Will THESE bones live?” We know these bones; we remember watching them die and our hopes right along with them. Where was God then and why does He want to know now? We really don’t want to go there,
Maybe it’s not about the bones? Maybe, it’s really about me!
Will that part of me live again?
I’m not sure I want to know; at least dead things don’t feel pain anymore – even thinking about it is unpleasant. I’ve learned to live without it, I barely even miss it anymore? Why now?
That area was off limits (even to me), but it’s God asking and I know He already knows the answer. I muster the courage to answer “You know Lord.”
That’s when He begins to tell what He will do and I realize that what I had put out of my mind, was still very much on His Heart. I had given up all hope of seeing life in that area again, but He is making it clear that this is not about me, or for me, this is about Him.
When God works, the things that completely fell apart are brought back together and the things that had died – begin to live again. We are left stunned and in awe. His work is marvelous - who can fully know it?
~Anonymous
EZ. 37:1-14 "No created power could restore human bones to life. God alone could cause them to live. Skin and flesh covered them, and the wind was then told to blow upon these bodies; and they were restored to life. The wind was an emblem of the Spirit of God, and represented his quickening powers. The vision was to encourage the desponding Jews; to predict both their restoration after the captivity, and also their recovery from their present and long-continued dispersion. It was also a clear intimation of the resurrection of the dead; and it represents the power and grace of God, in the conversion of the most hopeless sinners to himself. Let us look to Him who will at last open our graves, and bring us forth to judgment, that He may now deliver us from sin, and put his Spirit within us, and keep us by his power, through faith, unto salvation."~Matthew Henry
Jesus Be My Hearts Desire
"He is making it clear that this is not about me, or for me, this is about Him." Loved that line! Indeed, it is the *key* to the resurrection of our hopes. For His glory and that His Kingdom come and will be done . . . in my heart.
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