Being Gathered Back

I preached this recently because the Holy Spirit said so...lol. Yet, what got me were the words God says through Ezekiel...I will rescue my scattered sheep. I will bind their wounds and strengthen their weakness.

We are scattered by the virus, by fear, by longings for safety. Yet into the isolation a voice calls to us, a voice that tells us that we will be rescued...fed with good pasture, have our wounds bound and our weaknesses made strong.

Today is a hard one for all of us. Though different for all of us, we long for a new day. Some long for a new day of old ways. Others long to see what newness means. But we will all be gathered back. Hold on beloveds. Shalom.

Ezekiel 34:11-16

11 For thus says the Lord God: I myself will search for my sheep, and will seek them out. 12 As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness. 13 I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the countries, and will bring them into their own land; and I will feed them on the mountains of Israel, by the watercourses, and in all the inhabited parts of the land. 14 I will feed them with good pasture, and the mountain heights of Israel shall be their pasture; there they shall lie down in good grazing land, and they shall feed on rich pasture on the mountains of Israel. 15 I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will make them lie down, says the Lord God. 16 I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice.