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After the winter always comes the spring // Depois do inverno sem vem a primavera




I don’t know how your day is, today. I don’t know how long you have been suffering. I don’t know how you feel inside. But I know that there are days or seasons in our lives that we may feel dry. As if we are living in deep winter when we have no hope of the sun coming up to shine on us. There are days that everything looks grey, and maybe we think we are as good as dead.

Why do we pass through such seasons in life? But as we know that there is winter and soon after comes the spring, we should know that after winter always comes the Spring. And it is beautiful.

The passage today has something to do with dry bones, that is written in Ezekiel 37. The Lord took him to a valley. Probably in that valley might have happened a battle, and there were a lot of skeletons. The people of Israel was feeling like those dried bones, without hope (Ezekiel 37:11). But God had other plans. You know God gives life. So, He told Ezekiel to prophesy to those dry bones. Ezekiel prophesied and he saw (it was a vision) flesh coming up. And then he saw an army, without breath (Ezekiel 37:8).

Maybe you feel like that, standing on your feet, but you are feeling dead; not moving; just there, still. Paralyzed. Maybe you need life, the living God breathing on you.  You are living your life like an inert body, with no life, with no joy, just going with the flow. You feel dead inside. Like that army, Ezekiel saw, and for an instant, he said, “there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them. But there was no breath in them”. If you’re feeling like you are standing there with no life within you, listen carefully:

“Thus says the LORD, “Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe on this slain that they may live”, and they lived and stood on their feet, an exceedingly great army. (v.9)

In verse 5 Ezekiel said, “Oh dry bones, HEAR the word of the LORD (…) and you shall live”.
Hear the word of the LORD and you shall live. Live the life God has prepared for you. Hear the word of the LORD and you shall live. Stand on your feet with life that comes from the LORD’s word. “And I will put my Spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I am the LORD. I have spoken, and I will do it, declares the LORD”. (v. 14).

No matter how hard it is what you are going through this season. You can choose to dwell in the winter and let it last longer, or you can choose to enjoy this season because you have hope in the LORD that the Spring will come, and you have learned how to endure the winter with grace. There will always be winters in our lives, but there will always be spring too. We can live like a living army, standing on our feet with life; acknowledge that He is the LORD. 
Não sei como está o seu dia hoje. Não sei há quanto tempo você está sofrendo. Eu não sei como você se sente por dentro. Mas sei que há dias ou estações em nossas vidas que podemos sentir secos. Como se estivéssemos vivendo no inverno profundo, quando não temos esperança de o sol nascer para brilhar sobre nós. Há dias em que tudo parece cinza, e talvez pensemos que estamos tão mortos quanto mortos.

Por que passamos por essas estações na vida? Mas como sabemos que existe inverno e logo depois chega a primavera, devemos saber que depois do inverno sempre chega a primavera. E é linda.

A passagem hoje tem algo a ver com ossos secos, que está escrito em Ezequiel 37. O Senhor o levou a um vale. Provavelmente naquele vale poderia ter acontecido uma batalha, e havia muitos esqueletos. O povo de Israel estava se sentindo como aqueles ossos secos, sem esperança (Ezequiel 37:11). Mas Deus tinha outros planos. Você sabe que Deus dá vida. Então, Ele disse a Ezequiel para profetizar sobre aqueles ossos secos. Ezequiel profetizou e viu (era uma visão) carne formando. E então ele viu um exército, sem fôlego, sem vida (Ezequiel 37: 8).

Talvez você se sinta assim, de pé, mas está se sentindo morto; parado; apenas lá, imóvel. Paralisado. Talvez você precise de vida, o Deus vivo respirando em você. Você está vivendo sua vida como um corpo inerte, sem vida, sem alegria, apenas seguindo o fluxo. Você se sente morto por dentro. Como aquele exército, Ezequiel viu e, por um instante, ele disse: “havia tendões neles, carne caíra sobre eles e pele os cobria. Mas não havia fôlego nelas”. Se você sentir que está ali, sem vida, escute atentamente:

“Assim diz o SENHOR: “Vem dos quatro ventos, sopra, e respira sobre os mortos para que possam viver”, e eles viveram e se puseram em pé, um exército extremamente grande. (v.9)

No versículo 5, Ezequiel disse: “Ó ossos secos, ouça a palavra do SENHOR (...) e você viverá”.
Ouça a palavra do SENHOR e você viverá. Viva a vida que Deus preparou para você. Ouça a palavra do SENHOR e você viverá. Fique de pé com a vida que vem da palavra do SENHOR. “E porei meu Espírito dentro de você, e você viverá, e eu o colocarei em sua própria terra. Então sabereis que eu sou o SENHOR. Eu falei, e farei isso, declara o SENHOR”. (v. 14).

Não importa o quão difícil seja o que você está passando nesta temporada. Você pode optar por habitar no inverno e deixá-lo durar mais tempo, ou pode optar por aproveitar esta temporada porque tem esperança no Senhor de que a primavera vai chegar e aprendeu a suportar o inverno com graça. Sempre haverá invernos em nossas vidas, mas sempre haverá primaveras também. Podemos viver como um exército vivo, ficando de pé com vida; reconheça que Ele é o SENHOR.


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