May 13
How do we look at the world around us? What if God were inviting us to see things the way He sees them? "And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd," Matthew 9:36, (see also Matthew 14:14; Matthew 15:32; and Mark. 6:34; 8:2)
What if God were saying to us, His body, that in His sovereignty, He has been bringing the nations to us? That He has commissioned us, His church, not only to reach the nations in their homelands, but also to reach them here in our own homeland?
What if He were saying that it is our responsibility to do this without fear, without pride, without misgivings, without condescension, and without even a hint of ethnocentrism, but with all humility, love, courage, and sacrifice?
Then, rather than seeing the nations in our midst as a threat, an inconvenience, or perhaps just another interesting component to add to the melting pot, we may come around to God's way of seeing them: as sheep without the Shepherd, tossed about, harassed, aimless, lost, "having no hope and without God in the world" (Ephesians 2:12). Missionary to Mid East
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