Walking in Ruins

No one understands the power of prayer like a little boy who has seemingly lost it all and then goes to his father to ask for another chance. I see that every day even in my own life. sometimes, life boxes us all in and we feel like it is all gone.

I was in prayer this week and Ezekiel 37 started making sense again. It seems to make sense normally when something terrible hits: a tragedy, a loss, a failing marriage, a financial crisis etc. As I rummaged thru my mind, the song Glorious Ruins by Hillsong started forming in my conscience and somehow hit a very interesting code:

When the world caves in
Still my hope will cling to Your promise
Where my courage ends
Let my heart find strength in Your presence

Truth be said, we all get to this point.Sometimes life cages us in and it feels like we have lost all the things that are most important in life. It could be a job, it could be that a disease hits and there are no answers. The first reaction in most of these moments is that we lose hope, we feel we have lost all there is to our lives and before we know it, we slowly are sinking down the drain.

Life does pour us some lemonade, somebody said, but the best way to deal with these moments sometimes is to sweeten the lemonade and make the best out of it.

God wants us always to keep on the knees, because that is where our greatest battles are won. Like Ezekiel, we need to keep in conversation with Him and ask for His guidance in moments like these. When Ezekiel is asked about the bones, he keeps telling God only You know. At the end, God asks him to speak to the bones. This is when it all unfolds, it is not just the bones, their dryness and the valley, it is a matter of faith and having to trust the God we are in constant communion with.

Keeping the faith can be quite challenging, but God gives us the chance every day to talk to Him, to let Him walk with us in the valleys if dry bones. Even when the world caves in, our hope needs to cling to His promises and purposes for our lives. That only makes sense if we do not let our faith be in circumstances but in the God we have believed.

Take time continually and speak life into the situations of your life. No matter how dry your life might be, there is glory in the testimony that God will give you. Go thru the process and you will be amazed at what He has begun in your life.