I meant to post this weeks ago, but at our area's Fall Conference in mid-October, I had a moment of joy and wonder. I was standing in the back of the room as a throng of 200 students sang worship songs. We were singing a familiar chorus that I'd sung hundreds of times before, "People of every nation and tongue... we worship you."
As we sang, I looked up, and directly in front of me was a student born in Egpyt, next to a Nigerian student, next to a Vietnamese student, next to a White American, next to a Korean American, next to a Hindu (who would decide to follow Jesus later that night), next to sisters from a Muslim background. And that was just the row right in front of me!
The previous hundreds of times I'd sung that chorus had always felt like it described hope for some future reality, but I was brought to tears that night as I sang of people from every nation worshiping God and it described the present reality before my eyes.
I guess Jesus wasn't kidding when he said that the kingdom of heaven is AT HAND!
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