"I will make them one nation in the land," Ezekiel 37:22.
God can take a valley full of dry bones to give life to dead nations. Israel and Judah are both destroyed by their faithlessness to God's covenant. Yet, God promises to collect their leftover, dried bones into one living nation, under David's royalty. Unlike before, there will be a different covenant: an everlasting covenant of peace. In it, God will be their God and they will be his people. And all nations will know that God dwells among this people made holy by his own work. Yes. We, all of us, need a covenant of peace. Between us and God. That's what the Good Book's talking about.
We meet with a brother or sister today through the mediator of that new covenant, Jesus, the lasting king of David's royalty. And together we give thanks that God's grace establishes terms of peace with humankind.
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