"YOU WERE MADE FOR THIS"

"To belong to Jesus is to embrace the nations with Him that He will one day rule entirely.

Your heart was made for this:

Your heart was made to embrace the global dimension of missional living.

If you don't have a global heart, if you're not getting your arms around the nations - the unreached nations, peoples of the world -
there will be a mild or serious sickness in your soul because your soul was made to do this.

Like a leg was made to walk, and if it doesn't walk it will get sick. Something will go wrong with it.

Many people don't know what's wrong in their souls and what's wrong with their souls is that their souls have shrunk to the level of their concerns. They're not concerned about the nations. We were made to get our arms around the nations with God.

When you pray, "Hallowed be thy name! Thy kingdom come!" that's meant to take your heart and make it as big as history and as large as the globe. And that's a healthy heart. It's a strong, large, healthy heart...

You were made for this."

-John Piper, Joshua Project

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I hadn't heard it said quite that way before, but it's got me thinking...

"For God SO LOVED THE WORLD, that he gave his only Son,

that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

John 3:16

"For 'everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.' How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, 'How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!'"
Romans 10:13-15

"Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you."
Matthew 28:19-20