Ezekiel 37:3 He said, “Ezekiel, son of man, can these bones come back to life?” I replied, “LORD God, only you can answer that.” (CEV)

In a vision, God took the prophet Ezekiel to the Valley of Dry Bones.  There He told Ezekiel to prophesy to the dry bones to come alive.  God tells him that the people are like dead bones.  They are dried up with no hope for the future.

In Proverbs 17:22 it is written that a broken spirit dries the bones.  The Passion Translation reads the ‘dries the bones’ as ‘…heart crushed struggles with sickness and depression.’

It would seem that God says that individuals and the people as a nation can all suffer from such dry bones.  Perhaps institutions, governments, churches, the media, and political parties can be like dry bones, being more about things that hinder life than fostering it.  Without the breath of God, there is only a dried up semblance of life.

God told Ezekiel to tell the people that God will put His spirit in them and bring them out of their graves.  He reinforces what the prophet Jeremiah had said.  God has a plan for His people to prosper, plans for a hope and a future.  God wants to make His people great again.  That is really a matter of the heart and the spirit and not so much the ballot box or venomous rhetoric.