There is a current fashion that I hate. It is to put skulls and skeletons on perfectly lovely fabric and wear them.

Why anybody (no pun intended) would want to dress themselves in images of dead people is beyond me.

The other night I was lying in bed trying to nod off. God starting to talk to me. If I am honest I was a bit grumpy. I just wanted to go to sleep! But He told me to read Ezekiel 37 verse 2. I turned to it sleepily, not really expecting much.

From the start of the chapter this is what I read:
“The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me to and fro among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. 3 He asked me, ‘Son of man, can these bones live?’
I said, ‘Sovereign Lord, you alone know.’

I continued on to read the rest of this well-known set of verses.
What I found so heartening was how much it echoed my current experience. As you know, (because I have banged on about it incessantly for what seems like months now,) life feels incredibly dry and “lifeless” right now. It does feel as though there are bones everywhere.

BUT, look with me at the first phrase. If you are feeling dry and in a place lacking any kind of life it will give you hope too. The passage begins:
“The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord”¦
I have said it before and I will say it again that this is all God’s doing. His hand IS on me. His hand is also on YOU. He has brought me out by His spirit and He is also bringing you out too.

The question of whether the bones will live, or move or have life breathed back into them is surely up to Him.
I can’t think of anything worse than being surrounded by skeletons, or dressed in images of them, but I love being around people. People who are full of life and fun and joy.

May God breathe His life into all you and I do today. “Can these bones live?”

The answer is, “Possibly, yes.”