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.

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Want to emulate the ways of God? Consider Psalm 147:2-6. There you will find a series of seven descriptive characteristics of the ways of God. The first one is that “He builds…” So ask yourself, what are you building? Are you even attempting to build anything? Or are you just marking time, waiting for the rapture you were promised?

The Hebrew word used for build is the word “banah” which was first used in Genesis to describe what God did to fashion a woman out of the rib of Adam. It implies craftsmanship, care and great commitment. Are you building like that?

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