Every home has them … some are pushed so back into the closet, the clothes are hanging on them and the dust has well and truly settled on them. Most people forget about them – eventually.
Occasionally they get an airing – they get talked about, but not as skeletons. Its usually as that ‘unspoken’ family thing that may have happened long ago.
Whats your skeleton? Can it live? Can it breathe? Is it time to get it out, clean it down and finally send it packing from using up cupboard space?
When God took Ezekiel to the valley of dry bones, he said to Ezekiel, “Can these bones live again?”
What if your skeleton grew sinew and muscle and lived – after you had hauled it out and cleaned it? What then? Would you still allow it the space in your life … to come and go as it pleased?
Some skeletons are actually people, some have already died and at the very least, deserve a decent burial. Some have already moved on – and have no idea that part of them is still housed at your place, in your closet.
Get them out, let them out, clean them up (as in, deal with the thoughts, words, curses, problems) and send them on their way. Forgive them, and forgive yourself for holding them back. For yes, as God says, “Yes, these bones can live, and breathe and become a great and mighty army”.
