This God
This God that I serve. Today I fell in love with Him all over again. This God that you serve? He's amazing. This God, who maybe you have only heard about and fear? You are right to fear---we all do, but today I saw His heart all over again.
At the end of the age, what is He doing?
He is walking around, finding all of the outcasts on earth. He's looking for the rejected, and the lonely. He's finding those that are broken and outliers. He's looking for those who can't walk, for those infirmed. For the ones who have to yell out, "UNCLEAN. UNCLEAN," before they enter polite society.
And get this. He's not giving them a word of encouragement. He's not hugging them.
He's GATHERING them.
And those He gathers, he makes into a strong nation.
MIcah 4:6,7
I don't know my hermeneutics on this one. But what I do see? Is a God committed throughout all time and eternity to the underdog and those hurting. A person can't read the Bible and not be struck by how often God talks about the widow and orphan and the oppressed.
What struck me about this passage is that it's at THE END. He wasn't in this to help them for His name sake. He wasn't helping them because it was the right thing to do. In THE END, when time slips away and becomes eternity-----HE IS STILL choosing the weak of the world, those no one else sees or cares about. He's not congratulating yesterday's champions and the warriors of the cross, though He is too good not to get to that eventually.
At THE END, He is still going after those He loves. Those who can offer Him nothing---because the battle's all but over. He's choosing them, to develop, and to hang with Him for all eternity.
I'm in awe.
This God.
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