The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise… not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. 2Pet3.9 ESV
Someone asked me the other day if I thought Christ was returning in our lifetime. Jesus told us the He would not return until every ethnic group in the world hears the offer of forgiveness that He secured for us by His death on the cross. There are over six thousand un-reached people groups in the world. Many of these have no Christian witness what so ever. The way I see it, is that Christ is probably more interested in our witness to the nations than He is in our fascination with the details of His second coming. Many of the world’s un-reached people have certainly heard about Coca-Cola, but have never been told about God’s love in Christ. It seems that Coke has done a better job promoting its product in the last hundred years than the Church has with the gospel in the last two thousand. When General MacArthur was assigned the task of re-building Japan after the Second World War, he said, “Send me a thousand missionaries.” Japan remains one of the largest un-reached nations with a population of less than one percent who know God’s love in Christ.
Any delay in Christ’s return is probably due to fact that we are not doing our job and He is patiently waiting for us to finish the task He has assigned. He is not willing that any perish but that all should reach repentance.
4/3/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
