September 01, 2004
dry bones
if i could keep only one page of the bible to walk around with the rest of my life, it would have to be page 1006 in mine: ezekiel's dry bones.
i find it easy to believe God changes lives, heals people of certain things. i've seen it, experienced it. it's another thing to say that He takes death and makes it alive. the passages in the bible about the raising of the dead shock me. they fill me with a joyful hope.
my image of God is a God that delights in making beauty out of dirt, life out of nothing. all i need to know is that He's alive--He is life.
song of solomon says: "love is as strong as death." death is strong--final.
but God is much more than love, everything but death.
i pray to have the same vision over people's lives as "the God who gives life to the dead and calls things that are not as though they were."(romans 4:17)
Kelly, this was such a blessing to me. I'm so prone to look at the negative and forget who and what God is and is capable of. He reminds us daily, though, doesn't He. Well, He reminds me, every day, when I look in the mirror and realize that He redeemed me, in spite of my ugliness and wretchedness.
Posted by: heidi at September 1, 2004 11:22 AMoh kelly, i love this thought. and not that they just got up to walk, but to dance. that says something about that love, not just to drugery and commenplace everyday boring - but to dance.
Posted by: bobbie at September 7, 2004 05:37 AMthanks bobbie. yes, it is powerful. too much. where does it say they danced?
Posted by: kelly at September 7, 2004 12:26 PM