Valley Of Dry Bones

The second said that he hoped people would say that he was a great husband and father, who was an example for many to follow".

The third person said, I would like them to say, "Look, he’s moving!!"

Or there was the letter that was reportedly sent by the Indiana Department of Social Services to a person who had been receiving assistance through their organization.

The letter read as follows: "Your food stamps will be stopped in March because we received notice that you passed away. May God bless you. You may reapply if there is a change in your circumstances."

Funny perhaps - and that is the point - we know that dry bones cannot live.

Dry bones do not come back to life.

And there are so many dry bones all around us.

Lives that have been parched by the heat and storms of life.

Individuals that have been overwhelmed by the circumstances of life to the point that life has been stripped from their existence and all seems hopeless.

Do circumstances change - It’s not going to happen" "Dry bones live again - no way!"

The prophet Ezekiel is taken in the middle of the spirit to a valley filled with dry bones ...........

Can these bones live?_ he is asked.

Being in the presence of God, Ezekiel answered by faith instead of sight or logic –

"O Lord God, only you know!" How could he even said that.

It is so obvious - of course such dry bones cannot live. Still Ezekiel knew that in the presence of God anything can happen.

Can dry bones live? How often are we so very sure that the answer is no.

And how often are we so very sure about that answer that we give up all hope.

How often do we stumble along the cold hard road of life and find ourselves in a deep valley where everything around us seems devoid of life.

In a valley full of dry bones we may not even ponder the question long - _ Can these bones live? - of course not.

Living without hope is such a terrible way to live.

Seeing dry bones and believing that there will never be life there again is such a horrible thing to have to live with.

When you stand in the middle of this graveyard, don’t you often have the same question?

Are you also living in a graveyard of finances? Does there seem there is no way out of debt?

Hey, discover the faith you have in God and say yes these dry bones of finances can live….

Are you living in a graveyard of dead love in your marriage? Does it seem hopeless?

That there’s no way we are going to make it in these dry bones of arguments, disagreements and strive.

Hey, discover the faith you have in God and say yes these dry bones of our marriage can live…..

When I see how paganistic America has become - where it has accepted the pluralistic religion which says we all go to the same place, I wonder, “can these bones live?”

When I turn on the TV and see half naked people and kids in college boasting about the drugs and sex they’re having, I wonder to myself, “can these dry and dead bones live?”

It doesn’t seem like anyone wants to hear what God has to say anymore.