The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections

The Quill and Me—Devotional Blog•Oswald Chambers Reflections  Today's Devotional • Back to Home Page Jun 1 Today's Reading: My Utmost for His Highest Ezekiel 37:3 "He said to me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?' " Without Him We Are Dry Bones We are nothing without God.  We cannot fix ourselves, we cannot make ourselves holy, we cannot straighten out our own lives, we cannot raise our own dead bones.  But God can do all of this. He breathes life into dry bones—ours; separate from God's grace and God's Spirit—we are dry bones. Our part is not effort. Our part is surrender and trust. We surrender our will to Him and we trust and have faith that God can and will do all that He says in the Bible. This is the death of self and self-effort, and the birth of real faith.  Without God's grace, we are capable of being as bad as the next person in line for a jail cell. Because in us, nothing good dwells; but with God's Spirit abiding within us, we are ...