The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.  Psalm 14:2

God sent Jesus to be the Savior of any who want Him.  It may be a Rabbi of a rural town in Israel.  It may be an Imam in Pakistan.  It may be a Chinese government official who, at this very moment, arrests pastors in his village.  And it may be young people who, at this moment, are so infected with the darkness of our age that their spiritual condition appears hopeless.

God’s longing to be the God of all peoples prevails.  My heart must adjust accordingly – humbly – to rejoice in such unbiased love.  And my heart must hope in a God powerful enough to touch the one I consider most unlikely to believe ~ especially in these desperate times when it seems more likely people’s hearts will turn God-ward.  Wherever there is a seeking soul, God’s attention is arrested.  Wherever there is a cry for help, God is aroused to answer.

Is my Gospel inclusive? It is easy to be standoffish with those I don’t understand, with those whose culture is so unlike my own.  I am repelled by their violence, their practices, and shake my head in disbelief when I see their stories portrayed in the media.  They are so far from God and the gap seems insurmountable.  Yet, God is revealing Himself right now to a modern-day Saul, to someone who kills Christians, whose passion is to destroy every vestige of their faith.  He appears to the likes of Saul in visions, and he wakes up exclaiming, “Lord Jesus!”

God’s love is global.  The relevance and need for the Gospel is also global.  If my heart beats like God’s heart, my passion for the nations will be tearful and earnest.

I will align my heart and rejoice over heaven’s stories.  Amen