Review of the text from 4/6/2014: Dry Bones

Ezekiel: 37:9-10
"Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude."

In this story God shows the prophet Ezekiel a vision of a field of dead dry bones, and then God demonstrates how his love and spirit can overcome our dead-ness even when it seems there is no hope left.

Can any of us really say that there is a time when we don't feel a little "Dry-Bones-ish"? What does it mean to have the breath of God breathed into us?  And how do we keep breathing that breath in and out?  

This week I suggested that the breath of God is what keeps our soul and faith alive...and by extension it is what keeps us alive.  But us Christians get too busy to breathe and forget that we need it to live.  We don't take time to pray, study, worship, or praise and we wonder why we get exhausted and winded by life.  It's because we have no breath in our lungs.  SO, remember....breathe.