Leaving the known for the unknown
Ezra chapter 2
After 70 years in Babylon, almost 49,000 people returned from exile to Jerusalem to begin rebuilding. Even though they had been in captivity in a foreign land, 70 years is a lifetime, and Babylon had been the only home that most of those travelers had known. This traveling brood left their known zones and ventured together in community to do God's work in unfamiliar and sometimes hostile territory.
A good word for us today, as we, too, are called to follow Christ together outside of our comfort zones in order to travel the distance across cultural, racial, socio-economic expanses so that we might join Him in rebuilding lives, relationships, and cities through Christ.
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