JUST BREATHE

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and He set me in the middle of a valley full of dry bones. Then He asked me, "Can these bones live?"

Recently, a group of scientists asked the same question. They created a lung “skeleton”, which was made by taking a live rat lung and destroying the original lung cells with repeated cycles of freezing and thawing and exposure to detergent. The scientists then seeded mouse stem cells into the empty, lung-shaped shell. The results were astounding. The mouse stem cells not only lived, but also transformed into new lung cells. Quite a feat considering that in terms of different cell types, the lung is one of the most complex organs in the body--the cells near the entrance are very different from those deep in the lung--and in this new lung, all the different cell types were present and in their correct location. Man successfully created living lungs, but there was no breath in them.

So Ezekiel prophesied as he was commanded. And as he was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the dry bones came together. Tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: “I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.” So as Ezekiel prophesied, breath entered the bones and they came to life.

Man may be able to create body parts, but only God can breathe life into them. 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.

Do you feel like dried up bones, like a shell of what life should be? Do you feel like those lungs that had life stripped from them? If so, just ask the Lord and you will receive. Let God breathe His Holy Spirit into you and bring life to your situation, your valley of dry bones.