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Jeremiah 31:8-9
See, I am going to bring them from the land of
the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the
blind and the lame, those with child and those in labor, together; a great
company, they shall return here. With weeping they shall come, and
with consolations I will lead them back, I will let them walk by brooks of
water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble; for I have become a
father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
Ever-searching Love
The sweetest tears are
those of coming home to who you are and where you belong.
We are treasured children
of a Great Love who never stops searching for us in all the places we lose
ourselves and forget who we are.
We spend days, years,
even decades lost in a world of busy demands that crowd our minds, pushing and
pulling us to be something or someone other than our truest selves.
Meeting the demands of
the day, we forget and fail to pause and drink from the depths of that stream of
living water that makes our hearts new, a stream that never runs dry.
But we are never fully
lost, for the Great Love God is never stops searching for us in all the places we
lose ourselves.
God is the ever-searching
love who never stops, never gives up, never turns away, finding us along our wayward
paths, gathering the beloved into a community of souls where one love is known
and shared, where one love fills every heart, overcoming every division and
imbuing every relationship.
There is no difference
or division from Old Testament to the New. Our loving God has always been about
one thing, creating a community of Great Love where we know who we are and
where we belong.
Pr. David L. Miller
