Praise the Lord!  God gives snow, scatters frost, and casts forth His ice.  "Who can stand before His cold?"   Then He sends His Word to melt them!   All of us have had frozen hearts, cold and barren , icy.  But the Word of  God comes and melts them.  Praise the Lord!  Melt away all the ice and snow in our hearts Mighty God!  Praise Your Name and the Glory of Your Grace.

Ezekiel 37: 15-28  This follows the extraordinary vision of dry bones becoming living men.  Ezekiel is to take two sticks, representing Israel and Judah, and bind them together.  God declares that He is going to restore ONE nation.  One  Kingdom will be gathered back to the land and mountains of Israel.  One people with One God.  They will have One king - David,  or rather David's son - Jesus Christ our Lord.  There will be an everlasting covenant of peace.  And God will dwell in their midst forever.    All the nations will know that it is God Who sanctifies Israel.  For He will cleanse them, HE will shepeherd them,  He will lead them in righteousness.  They will " walk in My ordinances, and keep My statutes, and observe them"  .  Not try to or pretend ,  but really do it.   It is a supernatural sanctification.

It is all of You King Jesus.  You make the difference between a nation , a person,  living with frozen hearts unable to keep the Word of God;  and a sanctified, Holy nation or person living as a willing, faithful servant of God.  Your Word is precious and powerful.  Send it forth to melt the hearts of the lost. Gather us into Your Kingdom where we find Peace.  Bless The Lord oh my soul and forget not any of His benefits.

Thoughts from the book The Imitation of Christ  :  This chapter is called " Of meditation on death"
A reminder that death can come at any time, in any way, and that we must live in awareness of the fact.
"O the stupidity and hardness of man's heart which thinketh only upon the present and doth not rather care for what is to come!"
"Thou oughtest so to order thyself in all thy thoughts and actions, as if today thou wert to die.
'If today thou are not prepared, how wilt thou be tomorrow?"
"Alas!  Length of days doth not always better us, but often rather increaseth our sin. "
"Oh that we had spent but one day in this world thoroughly well!"
"Be thou therefore always in readiness, and so lead thy life that death may never take thee unprepared"
"O how wise and happy is he that now laboreth to be such an one in his life, as he will desire to be found at the hour of death!"
" A perfect contempt of the world, a fervant desire to go forward in all virtue, a love of discipline, a laborious repentance, a ready obedience, a denying of ourselves, and an endurance of any affliction what so ever for the love of Christ, will give us great confidence that we shall die happily."

Thoughts about death that make me want to live better.  "All for Jesus"  Ready to meet Him at His coming. Amen.  May it be so!