“I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the LORD have spoken and I have done it.”
Ezekiel 37:14
At an intramural track meet in college, I was to run one lap around the track. It started out great, but halfway along, my whole body froze up. I could hardly breathe. I couldn’t see how I would make it.
Captive in Babylon for years, Israel was out of breath. It was as if God’s people were in a race but couldn’t go on. Then Ezekiel saw God breathe (the same Hebrew word used in Genesis 2) into the bones and give them life. In C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the wicked queen cursed many creatures into stone statues. But the great lion Aslan who sacrificed his own life and then came back to life, strode up to the statues and breathed on them. They awakened and began to sing, dance, and shout the glories of the one who freed them.
Sounds a lot like God, doesn’t it? “With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!” (Romans 8:11, The Message) Each breath we’ve been granted comes because of His life-giving power in us. The race may overwhelm us, but Jesus went the distance for us.
Captive in Babylon for years, Israel was out of breath. It was as if God’s people were in a race but couldn’t go on. Then Ezekiel saw God breathe (the same Hebrew word used in Genesis 2) into the bones and give them life. In C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the wicked queen cursed many creatures into stone statues. But the great lion Aslan who sacrificed his own life and then came back to life, strode up to the statues and breathed on them. They awakened and began to sing, dance, and shout the glories of the one who freed them.
Sounds a lot like God, doesn’t it? “With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ’s!” (Romans 8:11, The Message) Each breath we’ve been granted comes because of His life-giving power in us. The race may overwhelm us, but Jesus went the distance for us.
Scripture Focus
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Insight
If you think you can’t go on because you’re out of breath, ask God to breathe His Spirit into you right now.
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