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Passion for My Countrymen

By November 24, 2014No Comments

Read Romans 9 – 10

I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart, for I could wish that myself were accused from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. Romans 9:2-3 KJV

I am ashamed of myself, and I am ashamed of most of us because we do not have the deep emotional concern for our fellow man that the Apostle Paul expresses here. We talk about human responsibility and man’s freedom in being able to choose salvation, but we rarely follow through with our talk by earnestly taking the message of salvation to those who surround us and have never received Christ as their Savior from sin, our fellow countrymen. So I am grateful God is sovereign, and that He is in control not only of what happens in my life but everyone else as well, because if the salvation of unsaved mankind depended on us, it would not happen. We do not have a heart for the world and we do not have the heart for our own countrymen that the Apostle Paul expresses here. We are too wrapped up in ourselves (our problems, pleasures, prosperity) and should be ashamed.

Lord, shame on us who will debate passionately the responsibility of man and your sovereignty but are left unmoved by the multitudes around us who have never called on Christ to be their Savior. Lord, stir my heart not only for the truth but also in reaching the unsaved with the truth.

A question to ponder: When was the last time I expressed the kind of passion expressed by Paul for my unsaved countrymen, and what can I do to ignite it?