God then instructed the pensive prophet to say something to the bones. He wanted him to command the bones to do something miraculous. “Dry bones listen to what the Lord is saying to you; I, the Lord God, will put breath in you, and once again you will live. I will wrap you with muscles and skin and breathe life into you. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel did exactly what God commanded him to do. And before he could even get the last sentence out of his mouth he heard a loud rattling noise. It was as if several men had run into the valley and grab several of the bones and started beating them together, making some macabre brand of music. But there were no men involved; only an invisible God at work.

The calcareous connective tissue began to respond. It was as if time had gone in reverse. Strings of sinew started to wrap around the bones. That which had been degenerated in the soil and forgotten among the blown sands of time now reappeared from Divine origins, for God had formed man from the dust of the earth; and from the dust re-birthed the activity of life. Inactive ivory phalanges, the finger bones, twitched as new skin regenerated. Hands that could grip plows again and sow seed in a healed land appeared; hands that could grip a sword to defend a promise; hands that could a hold a scroll at parallel angles north and south and read the fine print of Divine law; hands that could touch and be touched.

We see in this amazing Biblical miracle and analysis of the nation of Israel the idea of connection. And the connection was really a reconnection. The bone that had been disconnected, and the flesh that had decomposed and suddenly reappeared, and blood flow through reformed bodies indicated things coming together again.

Are you disconnected from hope? Do you feel like a spiritual skeleton merely coming out of the proverbial closet to haunt future relationships? Are you praying for a miracle of change?

God can get you reconnected. He can put things back together that seem impossibly restorable. He can pick up the fragments in your life and make a miracle. He can reconnect you to joy that has been lost to self-judgment, betrayal, and hurtful rejection. He can reconnect you to peace that has been buried in graveyards of grief; grief that has caused you to wander in and out of tombstone-mentalities, constantly stepping on fresh mounds of failure. God can reconnect you to love that has been seemingly cremated by a bitter divorce, a broken friendship, an estranged kinship, or job related contention. God can reconnect you to self-worth that has been slain by condemnation and guilt.

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