Today we read through Ezekiel’s most famous passage, the vision of the valley with the dry bones. Taking this passage at face value, just reading it out of the context, and not incorporating the other Prophets around and the chapters before and after, would make this a hard vision to understand. But, as we read on Sunday at the end of Ezekiel chapter 36, God tells His people He is going to someday remove their heart of stone and place in them a heart of flesh. This is also the exact same wording that Jeremiah uses in his prophecy from God to the people. Well, following this declaration in chapter 36, God gives Ezekiel a vision of dry bones coming together, having flesh and muscle placed on them, and lastly being given the breath of life so that the bones once again are living and resembling a huge army. This vision that God gives Ezekiel is another vision of the coming New Covenant, which is described by Jeremiah in chapter 31. This New Covenant will bring about a significant change to the people of God, in that they will go from dry dusty bones that have no hope into a living breathing people who have a heart for God and a desire that matches it. The valley of the dry bones is a symbol, parable, or vision that God shows Ezekiel to give him hope and show him the glorious future that God has in store for His people. As I read through the vision of God to Ezekiel 2 important truths catch my attention.
1-Everything that happens to the dry bones, all the flesh put on, the tendons placed, the bones brought together, and the breath of life instilled, is all driven by the Word of God. God’s Word is where the power is. God’s Word is what instills the life in His people. God’s Word is sufficient for all that the people of God need. God’s Word is what the people of God need to lean on, live off of, and have as the foundation of all that they are.
2-God is the one who give the life into the dry bones. Simply put, there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. God does all the saving and it all rest in Him. That mean the people of God must look to their God for salvation and never anywhere else, including inside themselves. There is nothing the people of God can do to save themselves, because even the act of faith is a gift from God and is placed in the people of God by God Himself.
1-Everything that happens to the dry bones, all the flesh put on, the tendons placed, the bones brought together, and the breath of life instilled, is all driven by the Word of God. God’s Word is where the power is. God’s Word is what instills the life in His people. God’s Word is sufficient for all that the people of God need. God’s Word is what the people of God need to lean on, live off of, and have as the foundation of all that they are.
2-God is the one who give the life into the dry bones. Simply put, there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. God does all the saving and it all rest in Him. That mean the people of God must look to their God for salvation and never anywhere else, including inside themselves. There is nothing the people of God can do to save themselves, because even the act of faith is a gift from God and is placed in the people of God by God Himself.
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