Life: It's a broad term. I have life, but am I really living? or... I am living, but do I really have life?
Perhaps there is the absence of both life and living...that is called dead!
When I hear the word "dead," I first think of physically dead. Yet, we can be physically dead and spiritually alive. "In Adam, all die [physically], so in Christ, all are made alive [spiritually and eventually physically when we are given new bodies!]." I Corinthians 15:22
In Ezekiel we are presented with quite the picture. Ezekiel is carried away by the Spirit of God to a valley of dead bones. There is not one glimmer of life.
Life can be that lifeless.
"Can these bones become living people again?" God asks.
Will I ever feel alive again? Will life be worth living again?
"You alone know, O Sovereign Lord," Ezekiel replies.
"...in Christ, all are made alive."
This is what the Sovereign Lord says, "Dry bones, I am going to put breath into you and make you live again!"
When God breathes into us, it is His very Spirit into our souls! This is life! "The body
is subject to death because of sin, the Spirit gives life because of righteousness."
Romans 8:10
God tells Ezekiel, "Son of man, we have become old dry bones - all hope is gone...I will open your graves of exile [hopelessness] and cause you to rise again!"
"I will put my Spirit in you and you will live again..." says the Sovereign Lord.
I have come that you might have life, and have it to the fullest. -Jesus
"When this happens," says the Sovereign Lord, "you will know that I am the LORD."
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
Melt me, mold me, fill me, use me,
Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me.
"Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Yes the Lord has spoken." Ezekiel 37:14
