2 Corinthians 4:16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
I no longer look like my high school graduation picture. Thank God.
Ezekiel 37:1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.
I look around and I see dry bones all around me these days.
Ezekiel 37:5 Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.
Genesis 2:7 then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
2 Timothy 3 English Standard Version (in part)
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. For among them are those who creep into households burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. But they will not get very far, for their folly will be plain to all.
The list begins with lovers of self, the narcissist in the mirror. They care more about what they look like than who they are in their inward parts. They have dried bones.