Dry as a bone

Funny, I often consider those words when I think hard about our current situation. Not very pleasant to think that everything is as dry as a bone. I recall the words from Ezekiel 37 that mentioned a valley of dry bones and how they came to life again. I sense that this perfectly describes what the whole world is experiencing now. We don't have any nourishment, because it has been taken away. We've turned our backs on the one who can give us that nourishment. Why? Can we not trust that he will do as he promised? Can we not see that this "valley of dry bones" that we find ourselves in will someday flourish?

The dictionary definition of "dry as a bone" could be summed up as an extreme lack of water. That gets me on another thought track when I realize how precious a commodity water is. We assume, wrongly, that it will always be there. Yet some tell us that it is scarce and becoming scarcer.

I think of the "Living water", and remember what he said in his word about drinking the living water and never thirsting again. Only he can provide the nourishment we need to survive in this world. Only he can supply us with rain enough to void the saying "dry as a bone." He is our great provider.