Dry Bones

Dry Bones

I may be nothing now, but you should have seen me
I vow- I had fibrous muscles of sinewy strength
Ask those who knew me
Tendons connected me like webbing
Skin absorbing sunlight- a beautiful sight    
But the heat grew intense
The number of temptations immense 

As the desert sand knows,
Dryness, as it goes, disposes of all moisture
Leaving each particle dry,
Left to the elements under the blue sky
In the same did I fall from God
Succumbed by temptations
Broken and fractured
God no longer my manufacturer
Not waiting to be raptured

Bones lay split and abandoned
When God took away his protection
I was left to the elements
They berated me, fated me to dry up
I WAS SPIRITUALLY DEAD!

Fallen from God
Supernatural love needed to save me
Cause superficial was my natural
I was a U F O
Unfaithfully Following Others
UninFormed Of my savior's supernatural power

His ability to breathe life into dry bones
Into the slain, open graves
of the ones once enslaved to sin
Those who dried up from sin
Ezekiel may prophesy but not without my-
not without my cry can God act

Cry uncle!
Even as dryness cloggs my throat
In anguish whisper- cry out to God
As dryness out of bitterness diminishes hope
I cry to you Lord: for Your breath
To fill me from the depths of my soul
Invigorating the bone within
Starting with the marrow
Taking away sorrow
Life returns where previously
Only strife remained within me
From the tibia to the fibula
Up the spine, through ribs

Within me, at my core
He saw the dryness I bore
But what wasn't good enough before
Could be raised up once more

Tendons enveloped me as His love developed me
Flesh grew in lieu of who I was before
skin covered me as purpose discovered me
And it was then I knew: He was Lord

Rejuvenated I stand here
Finally animated I seek other bones, invigorated
Together we must rally to become a body
One bone can't stay standing alone
ALL 206 bones are needed to form the body
We are ALL needed to form the body of Christ
Our ALL is demanded because His love changed us

Join me, Rise up in flesh,
For The redeemer is coming to seek a body of Christ
An Israel that is not dry but alive
Alive with the breath of God
that gives purpose to previoiusly dry and dead bones