Earlier today I was enjoying a nice warm summer breeze mixed with soft sunshine over our lake in Northern Michigan. In Michigan these type of days are a treasure because the possibility of this combo is only available 3 out of 12 months.
How perfect I was thinking. How perfect. I’m so lucky to witness this. To experience this. This is so relaxing and just beautiful. I could lay here all day, no cell phones, no schedules, no studying, no work, just enjoyment. Enjoying what God has given.
How much BIGger God seems when I just marvel at what he has created. When I witness what he’s done.
Having a BIG view of God is something I struggle with. I seem to view God through my glasses. I put God in my box. Sometimes I even dress up God in what ever clothes I want him to wear, to be whatever type of God I want him to be.
When this happens I lose perspective on who God really is, specifically how BIG God is. I create a smaller God, that I can imagine, control and limit. Unfortunately with this I also fail to experience the real God.
I read Ezekiel 37 the other day. It expanded my small view God BIGger.
Ezekiel is taken to this plain with dry bones laying around everywhere, almost like an old western movie. God asks him. “Can these bones live?”
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Can these bones live? I know that my view of God is so small that I would never even have the imagination to ask that question. The farthest I would go is concluding that these bones once did live.
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Ezekiel tells God that only God knows if the bones can live. God tells Ezekiel to prophecy over the bones to attach and become human form again. To breathe life into them so they’ll know He is God.
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Can you imagine what Ezekiel must have been thinking. “Wow God I didn’t even think about the bones being alive again.” Then all of the sudden. “You want me to do what? Tell the bones to live, and they will? Why do you want bones to know you’re God again? Wouldn’t it be more effective to let real people know that you’re God?” At least that is what I would think. To do this it takes a BIG God, BIGger than I can imagine. BIGger than Ezekiel. BIGger than me.
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So Ezekiel prophecy's over the bones, they attach, form muscle and skin and become bodies. Then God has him breath life into them. There they are, one minute a bunch of sun bleached bones, The next a huge, live army.
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Can you imagine the kind of thoughts going through Ezekiel’s mind? Wow God you are so perfect, so beyond me, so BIG. How lucky I am to witness this, to experience this. How fortunate Ezekiel is to have his view of God broadened so extensively. So BIG.
That’s what I want. A ginormous view of God. So BIG that I sound dumb when I tell stories of what He’s done. So BIG that people question the truthfulness of my tale. So BIG that it has to be God that did it, because I couldn’t even make something like this up on my own.
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God uses this story as an example of what He will do to a dead-hearted Israel. He will bring them up from the grave and breathe life into them. Not really that big of a deal, considering how BIG our God is : )
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