And Ye Shall Know

“And ye shall know that I am the Lord” Ezekiel 37:13

Why does God ask us ques­tions that He already knows the answer to?  Why put us through the trou­ble of pro­cess­ing the though and decid­ing upon answer?

God is look­ing for a will­ing per­son to hlep Him.  Does He need us — no.  Does He want us — undoubt­edly, yes!  Doesn’t it feel good to be wanted?  If you read the pasage found at the link above in Ezekiel, you’ll see a God who is look­ing for a will­ing man.  He asks in the midst of a grave­yard, “can these bones live?”  Of course not, not on their own.  Now show a lit­tle more faith.  Here’s how Ezekiel answers — “O Lord God, thou know­est.”  Makes you won­der how Ezekiel was pro­cess­ing these thoughts.  Was he sim­ply brush­ing off the ques­tion, assum­ing God had an answer and would tell him, or did he know and trust wholly in his heart that God knows if the bones can live and would make them live, if it were for His glory?

Read on, Jesus stated twice that He would put breath in the bones and cause them to live.  Yet, as the mir­a­cle began, He did all but that last part, the breath of life, and entrusted His fol­lower, Ezekiel to speak the words.  Jesus said, “Proph­esy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.”  Ezekiel sim­ply fol­lowed his com­mand and proph­e­sied as unto the Lord and the bones came to life.  Breath was breathed into them.

But that’s not all.

Not only did breath come in, but each new body stood up, as a vast army, together in obe­di­ence to the com­mand of God.  Eph­esians 5:14 shows the same action, say­ing “Where­fore he saith, Awake thou that sleep­est, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”

God promised us that if we’ll sim­ply fol­low Him, he will give us the power to serve Him and for Him to work through us, as found in Luke 24:49 “And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.”  Bear in mind, God’s power is not meant to be kept to your­self, but to be spread around and passed on.  Don’t let the power die with your parent’s gen­er­a­tion or your gen­er­a­tion, pass it to the next group of young adults who come up in your wake.

“Who is he that over­cometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” 1 John 1:5

“I have over­come the world” –Jesus