Danish, Dutch, Russian, and English. Each morning we prayed together, the
languages evidenced God’s presence across the different lands. My husband and I stayed in a house in Israel
that hosted volunteers from around the world.
We all sought the Lord. We all shared
purpose in serving survivors of the Holocaust.
We all found our horizons broadened in being together.
Yet back home, each of us would tend to view God in more finite terms. Americans think of God in terms of American experiences. Europeans think of God according to European
experiences. Tendency is pretty much the same for everybody everywhere. Only when we experience someone else’s way of
living, perhaps only when our geography changes, do we step out of our narrow thought. Yet our God is big. Actually He’s beyond big. Revelation 5:9 speaks of the Lamb whose blood
purchased men from every tribe, language, people, and nation. Just imagine the beauty of having all the world’s languages
represented in one room. Even knowing just our 4 languages in Israel
brought a weight of blessing. Christ’s death and
resurrection were for love of people of every language. Our God is
everywhere.
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