Wednesday, March 9
Ezekiel 37:1-14
This story of the Dry Bones is probably the most familiar
from Ezekiel. In this vision, God promises to re-create life from death, a sort
of second creation using the raw material of what is left of the Israelites. In
exile, they feel that they are cut off from their source of life (away from Jerusalem
= away from God), and so they have dried up, wasting away to only bones. God
promises to bring them back together so they are whole, including flesh, sinew,
skin, and bone, and to breathe God’s spirit into them for new life.
Remember, in Hebrew as well as in Greek there is one word
for spirit, wind, and breath, which is the source of life for these new
creations. With these parallel images to resurrection and new life, this is a
perfect story for the Easter Vigil!
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