i will trust in you, let the weak say i am strong

a quick synopsis on the chapter of Ezekiel 37... God is speaking to Ezekiel asking him a question, can these bones live? and he replies to God only God himself can know. God commands Ezekiel to prophecy over the dry bones twice for two different aspects, for the physical and for the breath. later on in the chapter, God goes to speak of the new covenant that he will create with these people and that his sanctuary would dwell among these people.

this comes to pass, and God completes this in Matthew the twenty-seventh chapter when Jesus is on the cross and he gives up his Spirit. the curtain of the temple is torn, the tombs break open and the holy people that died were raised to life they went into the holy city and appeared to many people...the centurion and those that were with him even exclaimed that Jesus is the Son of God.

now as i read this, i am utterly happy that this connects. We were the dry bones...meaning we were dead it wasn't until God commanded that we were spoken upon, it wasn't until the flesh was built upon these very bones that we were made whole on the physical sense. David speaks in Psalm 139 in verse 15 & 16... "my frame was not hidden from you when i was made in a secret place. when i was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be."

now for ths spiritual sense, Jesus speaks to his disciples in John 20 verse 22..." and with that he breathed on them and said, 'Receive the Holy Spirit'."...it also is recognized in Genesis 2 verse 7..." the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

now these are two very important aspects of breath....life and consciousness of what life is. life for the physical in which we intake and conscious for recognition that God is among us and within us. a friend told me that the Holy Spirit is a person...i believe he is a person that embodies us and lets us know that the flesh is weak and that this flesh is a temple in which we must hold steadfast to God, for his strength makes us perfect through weakness.

we were the dry bones and we were provided flesh and lastly provided the breath....but what really seals us is the blood. God spoke to Ezekiel and asked him the question: Son of man can these bones live? Yes they can but not by bread alone...but by the blood of Jesus. Revelation 1 verse 5b..."to him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood."

it wasn't until God spoke upon us that we are made whole in all aspects: spirit & physical making ourselves one with God and His will.

i Praise you because i am fearfully and wonderfully made...

signing off

BRIII