Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Jeremiah 23:4
I myself will gather the remnant of my flock
out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to
their fold
With an everlasting love
The desire of God is
for you.
The Loving Mystery
seeks always to bring the broken home, to find the lost who are scattered, to
draw the beloved into the divine heart that we may live beyond every fear, knowing
the everlasting love that refuses to let us go.
This is the will of God
for which we pray each time we gather and innumerable times on our own: “your
will be done on earth as in heaven.”
The Holy One creates us
that we may live in a community of blessing, gathered with all God’s people and
guided by caring shepherds who reflect the divine heart.
In Jeremiah’s time, the
shepherds—kings and leaders—failed to protect and nurture the people of God. They
did not seek God’s will for the land. The nation was scarred by faithlessness,
invaded and the population carried into foreign exile. Bad leaders divide and
cause ruin.
But God’s passionate
love does not wane or cool. With an everlasting love, God promises to begin
again, in every generation, to gather the beloved into the divine heart where
every fear and terror can be stilled in the community of blessing.
This is God’s promise, fulfilled
in the saving one, Jesus the Christ, the faithful shepherd who seeks always to
bring us home.
Pr. David L. Miller
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