Daily Reflections From Higher Things®

Today’s Reading: Ezekiel 37:1-14 Daily Lectionary: Exodus 23:14-33; Luke 4:31-44 And (the LORD) said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord GOD, you know.” (Ezekiel 37:3) In the Name + of Jesus. Amen. When the LORD spoke to Ezekiel in this chapter, the Jews were in captivity in Babylon. They had no strength to go home or to defend themselves. They said about themselves, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.” But God’s power is unlimited. He created life out of nothing. He can take the dead and raise them again. He could save Israel from captivity. Ezekiel sees a valley filled with dry bones. God asks, “Can these bones live?” Yes! Ezekiel preaches God’s Word to the bones, and they come together, rattling and connecting, sinews and skin covering them. They are whole again, but no breath is in them. Ezekiel preaches the Word of God to the breath and the breath of life comes into them and they rise on their feet, alive, a great army. Israel would come