· Howard Young · blog · 2 min read
Breath for Your Bones
You can't jumpstart your own resurrection. Only the Breath of God can bring dry bones to life. Today, stop striving and start breathing in His grace. 🌬️🦴
March 22, 2026
Read Today’s Verse: Ezekiel 37:1-14
Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. — Ezekiel 37:5
The Reflection
Today is the Fifth Sunday in Lent, often called the “Sunday of Hope.”
We stand with Ezekiel in a valley of dry bones. These bones aren’t just “mostly dead”; they are bleached white, scattered, and hopeless. This is the ultimate picture of the final word: death. Left to our own “works,” we are nothing but a silent valley.
But then comes the Word and Promise. God doesn’t ask the bones to try harder. He doesn’t give the skeletons a manual on how to reassemble.
He speaks. He breathes. This is Grace Alone. The life of the believer is a “resurrection life”. It is something that happens to us by the power of the Holy Spirit (the Ruach, the Breath).
Whether you feel like “dry bones” today—exhausted, cynical, or spiritually empty—listen to the promise. God is breathing on you through His Word. He is knitting you back together, not because you earned it, but because He promised it. You shall live, because He lives.
Pray with Me
Holy Spirit, breathe on us today.
Where we are dry, bring moisture; where we are dead, bring life.
Let Your Word rattle our hearts and awaken us to the joy of Your salvation.
Speak Your promise into our silence.
Amen.
