Thursday, July 7, 2011
Rev. 7:9-12
One thing I am sure about God is that he cares about the nations. He doesn't just care about Israel, or the church, or America, or non-Americans, or the "10-40 window," or those with disease, or the "poor," or the "rich." He cares about ALL peoples. This is a clear theme in every book of the Bible, especially the parts that talk about the end of the age and the new age (see Is. 45:23, 66:18-21, Dan. 7:14, Phil. 2:9-11 and Paul's usage of Is. 45, Rev. 7:9-12). The question definitely is not "should we go?" it is more of a "how should we go?" Sarah and I are two people in whom God is answering the "how should we go" question by saying: you are going to Uganda. God wants us there to spread his glory among those people. That freaks us out, but its also really sweet and humbling. But the thing is that we still have time before we go. So we still must be concerned with the here and now of the question: how should we go? The question you also have to ask is: how and where does he want you to go? There are so many unreached peoples in this world. So many. I found joshuaproject.net today and I really like it because it helps locate and quantify where these unreached peoples are. You should check it out.
Notice: there are unreached peoples in the USA.
May we continue to do the work of the kingdom in our location (wherever that is now and in the future) to spread knowledge of God every where.
Rev. 7:9-12:
“After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
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