Ephesians 2:12-13
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Ephesians 2
One song meets this passage
“All those years outside looking in”
I See the Light · Mandy Moore & Zachary Levi
resonates with Ephesians 2:12-13
The sense of having been distant or shut out before a moment of nearness mirrors the biblical picture of being brought near after being far off.