What Are You Gathering?
June 7th, 2007 | Michael Pink
Want to emulate the ways of God? Consider Psalm 147:2-6. The second of seven characteristics of God’s ways described here is… “He gathers…” What does He gather? The outcasts. David knew something about outcasts. He was cast out of Saul’s house and hunted like an animal. He gathered together some 400 discontented, indebted, distressed outcasts that he believed had potential and built a kingdom with them.
Nehemiah took the outcasts and rebuilt the wall around Jerusalem. Outcasts have a special propensity for success. They want to belong and are willing to lay down their life for a purpose. These are precisely the kind of people David chose to build with.
The word for gather is “kanac” and it literally means to wrap yourself up in something. In this case, to wrap yourself with outcasts, to surround yourself with folks who have already been broken and are wiser for it. God uses such outcasts to accomplish great things. “But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, has God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nothing things that are” (1 Co 1:27-28)
Who are you gathering to yourself?
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June 7th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
Powerful and very thought provoking. Hiway byway stuff.
June 10th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Interesting. Many of my clients could be considered “outcasts”. They do not fit the normal criteria for a good loan and often take more work. I don’t charge any where near what many of my competitors do for the same level of service. It’s not so much that I see it as a ministry as I just don’t feel it’s right to charge substantially more because of their situation.