Jeremiah’s “great company” returning from captivity
in the north includes the blind and the lame, those with child and those in
labor, hardly the kind of folks generally included in a great company. But that
is the way of the Lord that is often missed, even by God’s own people. The One
whose ways are not our ways and thoughts not our thoughts has an affinity for
those cast aside, those who receive no recognition or awards, who are wholly
dependent on hoping in the Lord. So God will rescue the remnant from those too
strong for them, turning mourning into joy, sorrow into gladness; comfort of
the Lord for a people long oppressed. The young and old will make merry, the
priests will get fat and the people will be satisfied. But more that, in the
remnant returned the Lord who scattered Israel, because they refused to walk
straight paths, is also restored for God suffered the separation as much as
those who languished in exile. It takes two to tango even if God takes the
lead.
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