Just a thought by coppi

Acts 24:16

“I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.”

“Honesty is more than the words we say. It’s a posture of the heart. We weren’t made to try and be something we’re not. God never asks us to keep up appearances. He longs for us to have the courage to be vulnerable. He longs for us to be so founded in his unconditional love that we live honestly.” (Craig Denison)

Ezekiel 37:1-14 NIV. The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the LORD and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.  “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look! I am going to put breath into you and make you live again! I will put flesh and muscles on you and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

Have you ever felt like a bag of dry bones with no life.  You are alive but existing from day to day.  Standish, my deceased husband, and I had attended a Christmas Eve service in 2010 and afterwards as we were crossing the street to our car, we were hit by a SUV driven by a young man who was texting and was preoccupied with his phone.  Standish was killed and I was unconscious for sometime  and thought to be dead,  but lived.  The year afterwards was filled with sadness  – grief, surgeries, cancer, etc.  I was alive, but dead inside.  Dry bones!  Length of time in the valley of dry bones I don’t remember, but what I do recall is when the Lord put breath back into this lifeless body and I started to live again.  Then my long time request to find God’s unconditional love became realty.  I guess it was a tiny ‘spark’ of what Job went through but at the end of it Job said: “I had heard about you before, but now I have seen you” (Job 42:5). Job sees God—and that is enough.  

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