Lent@Landmark: Day 19

“Hopeless” is not a word for God’s people to have in their vocabulary. God made this point many times, including to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones, in Ezekiel 37.

Then he said to me, "Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.' Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. (Ezekiel 37:11-12)

Do things look bleak for you? Are you concerned that you’ll never reach the place God intends for you? In your marriage? Your family? Your work?

There is no deficit on the scoreboard against which God cannot mount an epic comeback. Perhaps it’s time to stop placing your hopes on you, and place them in the one who is never, ever without hope.