God’s sovereignty should be a sweet and blessed comfort in a hopeless and terrible situation. Because of this, the prophet was not unduly pessimistic but neither was he unduly optimistic. He did not say, as he looked at the valley of dry bones, ‘We are going to see a great harvest of souls.’ In other words, he did not speak in the normal evangelical jargon used on the eve of a campaign. All he said was, ‘LORD, you alone know.’ He was, in effect, saying that if it can be done, and if it is to be done,