"The Living God is a Missionary God" by John R. W. Scott

The other day in Practical Missions class A3, we read a chapter entitled "The Living God is a Missionary God" by John R. W. Scott from a text book called Perspectives. This text discussed how God is on a mission to bless us, all of us, all of His children. In the discussion following the reading of this chapter it was stated that "we should be Global Christians of a Global God. Not 'American Christians' of an 'American God'. We are all believers of the same God." To me this means we as Americans and coincidentally Christians (but not 'American Christians') should reach out to Christians in other countries and help them, care for them, and have community and contact with them because we are all children of the same Father, and He has no denomination, therefore we do not either. This fact can be hard for us to swallow because we tend to think that God is just like us and we give Him humanly qualities, but God is really indescribable. We are incapable of comprehending what He is physically like. Therefore, because He is not like any certain people group, we are not entitled to discriminate or exclude any group of people from God's love. With this in consideration, we can begin to feel the true brotherly and sisterly bond with all Christians and we can begin to be Global Christians of our Missionary God.
         This passage form Perspectives helped me to see that I can trust God to lead my life. Scott explains the promises God made to Abraham, one of them being that he and Sarah would have many many children even though they were very old (like 80) and Sarah was never able to have children in the past. Abraham believed God despite all the odds stacked up against them. Abraham and Sarah trusted that God knew what He was doing, and eventually God delivered His promise. He blessed Sarah and Abraham with many children and they both lived to be even older. The lesson from this deliverance of promises is that God fulfills everything He says He will do, but He will do it on His own time, and in His own ways.