Ezekiel 6 – Scattered Bones 

6:9 Then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. 

In the very center of this chapter full of judgment, there is mercy. Though great judgment will leave nothing but the scattered bones of the faithless, right in the midst of this God bares His heart, saying that He is broken as a husband over His adulterous wife. And should it surprise us that the God after whose image we were formed is an emotional God? He does not need to feel this way, for He commands His emotions—yet He does. See how He loves His bride! What kind of God is this, who makes Himself vulnerable and binds Himself to us? In His judgment there is always mercy. When God breaks something in my life, I can be assured that it is only because it has first broken His heart, because it has broken me. He only breaks that He may heal. Let us not despise our broken state when it comes, but let us rather “remember” our True Lover. Even if we have been faithless, and lie scattered like the bones of the dead, there is yet hope, because does not our God raise the dead?