Gathered
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Who does God gather to himself? Have you ever been distant and estranged from God. Have you been gathered by God?
God cares for all people all the time. The prerequisite for God gathering us is that we are scattered and astray.
God spoke through the Prophet Isaiah, saying, “The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares, ‘I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered.’” (Isaiah 56:8, ESV).
God gathers all his children. God gathers his chosen people and God gathers the outcasts to be his children. God gathers the near and the far away.
God gathers all people to himself so that everyone can be close to him.
No matter how far we are away from God, and no matter how much we feel like an outcast, may we be gathered together with God and his children.
A Collect for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 15): “Keep your Church, O Lord, by your perpetual mercy; and because without you the frailty of our nature causes us to fall, keep us from all things hurtful, and lead us to all things profitable for our salvation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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