All the Peoples

"And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing." (Gen. 12:2)

When God called Abraham to follow him, He told Him that He would bless him in order for him to in turn be a blessing to all the peoples of the world. Throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament God's heart is for every people group of the world to hear the Good News of Redemption. God always blesses us in order that we be a blessing to others.

In Acts 16, God turned Paul on his second missionary journey toward Europe and the Gospel went west. What if He had sent Paul toward the east and Asia or China had received the Gospel first? Would they have shared with western nations? Would we have prospered so much without the Gospel in our civilization?

I believe hat God blessed Europe for years and blessed the United States for years so that we would in turn be a blessing to the rest of the world. The greatest of the blessings that He gives is the message of Good News to redeem us from our sins. We have a tremendous responsibility to make sure that every people group hears the Gospel message in their heart language. That is not the responsibility of a few carreer missionaries, but the responsibility of every person who knows the Lord Jesus as Savior.