I can really claim to know nothing.

I am a man covered, even infected, with sin.

  • When it is time to say the wrong thing, it comes out of my mouth before I can even think.
  • When it is time to worship, I sometimes pout, consumed in my own futile existence.
  • When it is time to encourage, I take a shot.
  • When it is time to correct, I encourage.
  • When it is time to cower, I am the first to hide in fear.
  • I am also the first to (as Peter did) pull out the sword and cut off the ear of the servant of the high priest.  I am the first to accuse, to lather someone in guilt, to judge.

And yet … in spite of all these things … I KNOW this with absolute certainty:

I love my wife with all of my heart.

I love my kids more than I could possibly love myself.

And I love my students at school—with all of my heart.

And I love all of them even when I am hard on them.

That LOVE that I feel for them is not my LOVE, it is God’s LOVE.

You see … God LOVES us.  And He doesn’t mess it up.  And He LOVES us in our weakest moment—unconditionally.  And without limit.

As I write this blog tonight, I can not help but think of the greatest verse in the Bible (besides all of the rest of them).

Ezekiel 37 1 The hand of the Lord was on 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. 2 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.  3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”  I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”  4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!  5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”  7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.  8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.  9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’”  10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.

When God wrote this verse through Ezekiel, He intended it for September of 2021.  And He wrote it for you … and for me.

No matter what is broken in your life … Or dead … Or stagnant … He can revive it.  And …

If it is lost, He can find it.

If it is wounded, He can heal it.

If it is doomed, He can save it.

God showed Ezekiel an army coming to life so that you might have hope.  

He showed Him in the spirit so that you might see it in the flesh.  

And He showed him a dead army so that you might breathe His LOVE on an individual, a town, or a nation.  

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J