AS ONE PERSON
Today's reading: Ezra 1-5

"Now in early autumn when the Israelites had settled in their towns, all the people assembled together as one person in Jerusalem." Ezra 3:1 NLT

Oh, how I love this word picture.

I see a group of believers who have come home.

A group of followers who were committed to God.

Folks who had been many places, seen many things, committed many sins and had all had the precious grace of God poured out on them--so they gathered.

They came together with their scars from battle. Some healed over but very apparently there. Some with gaping wounds, from the enemy, from friendly fire and some self-inflicted.

They gathered as one team, all wearing the jerseys embroidered with "CHOSEN" across the back.

They came hobbling in, being carried by friends, in groups and some running as they had been for years. The hurt, the disabled, the never-gonna-quit.

They all had their stories. Their pasts. Their testimonies.

But they came together as one.

Oh, I love that!