Friday June 9, 2023
Matthew 12:21
“And in His name Gentiles will trust.”
For thousands of years the chosen people had lived in hope. God had promised to send His people a Deliverer.
When at last He was born in Bethlehem, He came as the hope of Israel. And throughout His earthly life He made it clear that He was sent to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Among them He walked, all His days, among suffering souls and ailing bodies. And hope grew wherever He walked.
But He is not only the hope of Israel.
In Him the Gentiles also hope. Without knowing Him, without having heard of Him, all the Gentiles, too, have secret hopes of an emancipator. In Athens Paul found an altar to an unknown god.
At all events Christ is the fulfillment of our soul’s deepest needs.
As soon as He had risen from the tomb, He gave His disciples the command to go out to all nations with the glad tidings of the Gospel of Him in whom they had all hoped and to whom they had all looked with longing.
The spiritual awakening in Sychar, John 4, and the desire of the Greeks, John 12, had shown Him that the Gentiles waited with earnest expectation. This has been confirmed in every place reached by the Christian missionary enterprise. The great apostle to the Gentiles had to witness the turning away of his own people from the Messiah while the Gentiles streamed to Him in multitudes.
But the world is large and the number of Gentiles great.
And the friends of Jesus have not been as zealous as their Lord in bringing the light to those who sit in the shadow of death. Today two-thirds of the people on earth have not as yet heard that God has become incarnate, that sin is expiated, and that they who will may be saved.
Let us all think about this today!
To do so will profit both ourselves and the cause of missions.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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