Devotion:
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Read Isaiah 49:5-6.
The prophet shares this reminder of God’s desire to bring salvation and new life to all the people of the world. As Eugene Peterson translates it in The Message: “I’m setting you up as a light for the nations so that my salvation becomes global!” This is our mandate to bring everyone the Good News of Jesus. However, there was an impassable gulf between the Jews and Gentiles in the early days of the church. No Jew would have anything to do with a Gentile but of course Jesus was a Jew, and those walls were invisible to him. And so, they should be to us as well.
We must work together to change the world. Cooperation is more than a good idea; it is a command (Ephesians 4:3). Unity matters to God and every person regardless of gender, income, education, skin color, family background, and any other designation that can be assigned, matters to God - and should matter to us. One person at a time accepted, embraced. We are a new people, a new family created in Christ.
Personal Worship Option:
As you go about your day, look for ways to include others that may not initially occur to you to include. Thank God for the opportunity to be the “light”.
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