Devotion - Thursday, April 25

The vision retold in Ezekiel 37 should be read and remembered. It is a vision for any who ever find themselves feeling desolate or hopeless or grieved.

The prophet is taken to a valley full of bones and asked, "Can these bones live?"  As the Word of God is spoken to these bones, they begin to come together.  Sinews are attached and flesh.  As the Word is spoken again, breath enters and life is revealed.

The message God instructs the prophet to tell Israel is not to see themselves as desolate or hopeless or grieved.  The Word of God and the breath will come to them, and they will live.

This is a powerful message, for each of us and for all of us.  It is the story of our God and it is the message we should proclaim.  We can hear the promise and we are invited to experience the life and breath which God gives to us at the start of each new day.