It has been said that a person can live about 40 days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for a few seconds without hope. For Good Friday, I am reading Ezekiel 37 in the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan. How providential! Because Ezekiel 37 is about hope restored.
In Ezekiel 37, God’s people had raised the white flag of surrender, and admitted in verse 11: “Our hope is lost…” They had cause for discouragement. Their nation had been invaded and taken over. They had been ripped out of their homeland. Now they were exiles in a foreign land, objects of shame, scorn and humiliation.
Slip into their sandals and consider: Gone was the city of David. Gone were the city walls and the king’s palace. Gone was the Temple, the place of God’s presence.
All of it was gone! For these people, it was as if someone had…
