VERSE FOR TODAY: This the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all (1John 1:5, New International Version).
HYMN FOR TODAY: "YES YOU ARE THE LORD"
No contrast between life and death could be more complete than in the object lesson God place before Ezekiel very dry bones lying in the sun-bleached sand- no sign of life anywhere- desolation-death.
Ezekiel obeyed the voice of God and began to prophesy. Then, noise-rattling movement- life. A message from God to His people: "I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, . . You will know that I the Lord have spoken" (verse 14, New International Version).
We, like the Israelites, may feel that all hope is gone, men have failed us , and we are cut off from life. We may feel that we live in a world that is like a valley of dry bones- ugly in its
Wickedness, helpless in its confusion, utterly unable to save itself. However, God does the seemingly impossible. He gives life and hope. We can be assured that He keeps His promises because Christ has come to give life to the souls of all men.
His gospel ia a message of life. It comes to us in our most degraded, desolate, and despairing conditions, and gives to us an opportunity to accept salvation and live in the light.
PRAYER THOUGHTS: O Sovereign Lord, thank You for the assurances of knowing that You keep Your promises. Teach me the wisdom of Hero of faith, wisdom of Ezekiel when he said, "You alone know." I trust my life to You, and know that You are nearer to me than I am sometimes aware. Amen.
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