God’s Gathering

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How scattered, distant, and detached have you been in your relationship with God? Do you remember the feelings you felt being scattered, distant, and detached from God?

We have all been scattered and distant before, are scattered and distant now, or have the potential to be scattered and distant from God at some point in our lives.

The only prerequisite for God’s gathering of his children to himself is that we are scattered or distant from God.

Have you ever been an outcast? Do you remember what it felt like to be an outcast?

We are all outcasts in our sin and brokenness.

Either we were outcasts, we are outcasts, or we have the potential to be an outcast in the future in this fallen and broken world.

The Prophet Isaiah wrote, “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 the outcasts to make a people for himself. God is constantly gathering his children to himself, no matter how scattered, distant, or outcast they are.

May we experience God’s gathering as God’s people and move from scattered outcasts to the intimately gathered children of God.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Collect For The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost: “O God, you declare your almighty power chiefly in showing mercy and pity: Grant us the fullness of your grace, that we, running to obtain your promises, may become partakers of your heavenly treasure; 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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