Raising the dead to life, both spiritually and physically, proves to be God’s favorite hobby. He must have relished showing the prophet Ezekiel the fantastic vision of dry, human bones coming to life in Ezekiel 36. God created a masterly production of a supernaturally weird experience, just like our ultra-modern science fiction movies.
Human skeletons plugged up this valley. He plopped Ezekiel, the Israelite priest, down in the middle of a monstrous scene of horror. Then, the Lord told him to stand, face the bones and preach—preach to millions of bones that couldn’t hear anything. Well, Ezekiel obeyed, and while he preached, the skeletons gradually reformed themselves into bodies, sinew by sinew, organ by organ. Then, God ordered him to preach the breath into them. Ezekiel kept preaching, and suddenly, the bodies moved and stood up. They lived! He now stood among thousands of people who had been dead a few minutes before!
Ezekiel discovered God’s passion, making something out of nothing, transforming horror into joy, bringing the dead to life, with just His words! God’s words alone, preached from man’s tongue, can bring life into the calcified dead. “But God being rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)” (Ephesians 2:4-7).
Most humans choose to live a lifeless, dry-bone-life instead of living, moving and having our being in the God who has such a rich imagination for turning nothing into something (Acts 17:28). Placing ourselves in the hands of the supernatural God is always exciting. He never allows us to get bored. If we ever get tired of being Christians, then we cannot blame God. If we find ourselves indifferent or turned off to doing things that please God, then we have jumped out of His protective hand, and we have allowed ourselves to lie around in a bone-choked valley.
Please, don’t allow yourself to get into this situation! Live the Christian life as Paul admonished by renewing your soul daily, and daily making sure of your calling with which God called you. Place your soul daily in God’s very capable hands, and live (Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 4:11; John 10:10)!
