Fresh Breath

Friday, August 28, 2026 | Ashley Laughlin

Ezekiel 35-38

We all know what it feels like to be in a dry season, wondering if restoration is even possible. Ezekiel wrote to people who felt that exact way. In chapters 35 through 38 we see a nation in exile, scattered, and ashamed. 

In the shadow of judgement and exile God shows up. He wasn’t just trying to rally the people. He gave them a covenant, a promise that will never be broken.  In Ezekiel 36, the covenant for His people included a new heart, a new spirit, and His own Spirit dwelling within them. It wasn’t what they had before. It was a transformation into something entirely new. 

Then in chapter 37,  Ezekiel recieves a vision of a valley of dry bones. God asks him: “Son of man, can these bones become living people again?” This vision is wild, but a sweet reminder that nothing is beyond God’s reach. He breathes life into what is lifeless and restores what seems permanently broken.

Even in the darkest moments of these chapters, El Emunah, the Faithful God, never stops working.  When Isreal had nothing left, El Emunah showed up. The Faithful God always does. 

God is still actively working today, faithful in the same ways He was in Ezekiel’s time. Luke 19:10 says; “For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” He did that for us, just as He did it for the people of Isreal. 

Where in your life have you written off restoration as impossible? I would encourage you to bring one “dry place” before God honestly in prayer and ask Him to breathe new life into it.