“Let the peoples praise you, O God;
let all the peoples praise you!”
– Psalm 67:3
God’s plan of salvation isn’t limited to just helping a few privileged groups of people. God desires and is actively working to redeem people from every ethnic people group, tribe, language group, and nation. His work won’t be complete until members from all the peoples are praising Him in the name of Jesus. This is why Jesus issued the Great Commission, directing His disciples to make disciples of all nations based on His absolute authority over creation.
As a Christian, you’re blessed with the opportunity and responsibility of helping this vision of worldwide praise and worship become reality. Currently, there are over 3 billion people who have no one in their own culture to tell them about Jesus. They will live and die without knowing God, or having the opportunity to know God, unless someone tells them about Jesus, Who is the way, the truth, and the life.
These billions of souls are the responsibility of the church and all her members. You’re commissioned and commanded to help make disciples and to support those proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ where it’s never been proclaimed before. For some, that support looks like going and sharing good news with them directly. For others, it looks like faithfully praying for the nations to receive a gospel witness and to hear and embrace the invitation of Jesus to follow Him. It may look like sacrificially giving to support the sending of missionaries and the development and distribution of resources in their native language. It may look like sending and providing ongoing support for those in the field or it may look like actively welcoming the nations as they move into your neighborhood.
God has work prepared for you to do (Ephesians 2:10). There are many ways to be part of God’s one mission to redeem and be praised by all the nations. Do you know what your work is? Are you doing it so that all nations may one day praise Him? #FollowJesus