March 27, 2026
God brings Ezekiel into a valley full of dry bones and promises to put breath, flesh, and life back into what looks completely lost.
Devotional: Few images in Scripture feel more hopeless than a valley full of dry bones. Not fresh loss. Not recent grief. Dry bones. Long dead. Long exposed. Long beyond anything human beings could fix. And yet that is exactly where God speaks.
He does not ask Ezekiel to pretend the bones are not dry. He asks him to look at them honestly. Then He asks a question that sounds almost impossible, “Can these bones live?” That question still comes to us. Can this relationship live? Can this calling live? Can this weary heart live? Can this church, this faith, this hope, this future live?
On our own, we do not know. But God knows. And God speaks where death has had a long time to settle in. That is what makes this passage fit so well with the Lazarus story. Jesus stands in front of a tomb and does in person what God promised through the prophet, He speaks life where life seems gone.
Lent invites us to tell the truth about the bones. It also invites us to listen for the breath of God.
Action: Bring one hopeless-looking situation before God and pray, “Lord, breathe here.”
Prayer: Lord, You see the places that look dry beyond repair. You are not frightened by what feels long dead to me. Breathe where I have stopped expecting life. Speak where silence has settled in. Help me tell the truth about what is broken without losing sight of Your power. In Jesus’ name, amen.
Thought for the Day: God still breathes life into what looks far gone.
Ezekiel 37 takes us into a valley full of dry bones, and even there God speaks life. That is good news for every place that feels too far gone, too tired, or too dry. The breath of God still reaches there.
