"I, the Lord, have spoken and will act,"

I visited the Dry Bone story from Ezekiel this morning.  It has been one of those Bible stories that never fails to play with my imagination.

As I read it, again this morning, I couldn’t help but think about the deadly virus that is presently consuming the minds of most people today.

This passage, from Ezekiel 37, is an impossible metaphor of a valley of very dry, dead, lifeless bones.  

Thousands of body parts lying disconnect.

And yet God sees possibility in these white brittle bones.

There is the possibility of hope lying all over that valley floor.

How could this metaphorical story relate to the coronavirus?

The answer is found at the end of this story:

11 Then he said to me, ‘Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, “Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.” ¹²Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. ¹³And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. ¹⁴I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken and will act, says the Lord.’ (Ezek. 37)

We are a people who have found ourselves in an unfamiliar circumstance for sure.  

        It is scary.

           Impossible.

              It is Life suffocating. 

           It is inconvenient. 

        It is our of our control. 

           It feels somehow hopeless.  

              We literally have no where to go.  

       

So there is the temptation to forget that God is in the midst of it all.

I don’t know how God is working.  But, by faith, I am positive that He is.

As the four wind blow upon the whole world; God’s possibility move mightily along.