A new type of rationality, current age: 26

"He asked me, 'Son of man, can these dry bones live?'
I said, 'Sovereign Lord, you alone know.'" - Ezekiel 37: 3

What a bloody honest answer. Because if Ezekiel had said anything else, he would have been such a tool.

How interesting that God asks him. Isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Aren't we supposed to be asking God, can these dry bones live? Can you heal my dad? Can you give me that job? Can you Can you Can you

CAN YOU???

But maybe it's about faith. Obviously, God knows these dry bones can live. Not only did he know they could live, he knew they could be a freakin' army. He took worthless, lifeless, dry, dusty bones and turned them to a throng of flesh with purpose.

And He could have done it alone. I mean He's God. He could have just said: "Ok Ezekiel, you see all these worthless bones. Watch me work kid. I'm going to create a huge something out of an even greater nothing."

Why did Ezekiel have to be in the equation if God already knew the answer?

So maybe it's about faith. About God equipping Ezekiel to have faith in things not seen. A kind of faith that can literally move mountains. A kind of faith that declares: I know my God!

Maybe God was training him to see in the dark. Training him to hope not in the circumstances, but in the immense power of a God who resurrects from the dead. Who can cause water to flow from a rock. A seed to turn into a kingdom. A woman to bear a child at age 100 or by the Holy Spirit. A bush to re-ignite faith.

Because I'm sure after that Ezekiel had swag. He had a pep in his step because he knew not in his head, but in his soul, in his bones, in his chromosomes, that NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD.

He probably became a beast, a monster, the most humble man alive, so in awe of how small we are and how big God is. How powerful, how unpredictable, how reliable.

Faith.

It's not just about believing in things not seen. It's having the courage to bring life to those things not only invisible, but DEAD, because God is real, because God's will trumps logic.

It would have been irrational for Ezekiel to not have faith in things not seen after that.

I want to be that irrational.