Yes! Dead bones can live.

Someone said, "Be kind. Everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." I have a friend who has been fighting a great battle for his faith in God.

Recently, he responded to God's question to Ezekiel in Ezekiel 37:4, "Can what is dead and dry live again?"

My friend's words are poetic, powerful, and profound. He graciously is allowing me to share them with you here. As you read, pray for yourself. And pray for my friend, too.

Can these bones live?

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I believe they can. I was walking in the park today & found a large dry bone. It looked like a human thigh bone but it must have been a deer's bone or at least I hope that it was.

When I had looked at it I thought about Ezekiel 37. I thought about the message given in this chapter. Verse 13 especially.

"Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them."

What a day that will be when the dead will rise. In part with this verse it reminds me of a Johnny Cash song I have been listening to in which one of the lyrics is that "ain't no grave can hold my body down. Meet me Jesus meet me, meet me in the middle of the air."

My hope is that even as a sinner saved by grace, beaten by the world, distracted by the enemy who prowls around like a roaring Lion looking to devour the sheep that we are..... To hold on to faith in the midst of persecution, lonieness, friends that leave us, family that passes away..... Hold onto what He promises, hold onto what one day in Heaven would be like, one second in Heaven would be like. I clasp onto what faith I have left in hopes that no man, no child, no Heretic, no Pagan, no witch, no warlock, no false prophet, no living being on this earth will be able to take that away from me.

You know when sometimes all we can see is darkness around us it is comforting to know that there is a marvelous light that still shines in that place we have access to. I've asked myself what it means to enter into the Holy of Holies, that place where no man can enter.

God humbles all men. He is the Alpha & Omega. He has the power to cut us down or lift us up. I've experienced his Mercy and his dicipline in life. He has spared me from destruction & delivered me on multiple occassions. Man has no power over what God wants to do in one's life. What little control we really have over our lives. Just when we think we can do things out of our own strength, that is when He shows us we can't.

Every time I try to do things out of my own ambition & strength it seems to fail. A friend said to me recently "People would be great if they weren't human." I kind of just laughed at it & realized that it is true. We are human; we do stumble; we are selfish; we are prideful; we are vengeful; we are desperate. I am desperate.

On this note I am going to call it a night... & thank God that I am still alive, thank God the Sun will rise. Thank God there is Hope. Thank God He forgives. Thank God that when the end comes in which it does for all mortal men that on our deathbed we will pray to God... setting our minds to Heaven, a place not often spoken about. A place that is incomprehensible to our minds.

Deep inside we have had glimpses of both realms. Heaven & Hell. We have read about both places in scripture & I can say first hand I have experienced both. My hope lies in Christ who strengthens me.

It is up to us as Brethren, Men of faith, disciples, (The Royal Priesthood) to stand up against what sometimes seems to be a whirling band of Gargoyles hovering above our heads, laughing and mocking us like Vultures awaiting us to become Dry Bones. Dry bones we will be, but He has the power to bring them back to life. Amen.

Father in Heaven, forgive us this day & each day hereafter, for each day is Yours & Yours alone. This is the prayer of Sinner saved by grace.