In relation to the unreached people groups of the world, we know what God's will is: "The Lord is not... willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9 NKJV). P. talk about "finding" God's will. It is not really "lost." His will is that lost people hear about Jesus and become saved That morning, confronted by that reality, I had three options:

 

1. I could deny it. I could deny the plain teaching in Romans that people are lost until they hear about Jesus and believe on Him. Picking and choosing what you want to believe from the Bible is called "liber alism." You conform the Bible to fit your personal preferences. But the Bible is not a buffet where you take what you want and leave what you don't. You and I don't judge the Bible; it should judge us. The path of liberalism is a dead end.

 

2. I could ignore it. I could put my head back in the sand and ignore the fact that billions of people around me were lost. I could go on about my life, letting Jesus take me to heaven and giving me fulfillment and meaning. But how could I do that now, knowing what I know? Ignoring truth doesn't change it.

Sadly, I believe, this is what the vast majority of the evangelical church is doing with their knowledge about heaven and hell. We go on about our lives as if hell were not real, or like there are not 2250000000 people who have no chance of hearing the gospel except through us. We play while people perish. 3. I could embrace it. I knew this would be radical. It would lead to a dramatic reorientation of my life. I chose number 3. That morning my prayer about what to do with my life changed from, "God, if You spell out in my Cheerios for me to go, I'll go," to "God, here am I. Please send me. Use my life, to the greatest extent possible, to bring salvation to others."

 

I believe that is the prayer every disciple of Jesus should Our prayer should not be "God, if You make a special pray. appeal for me to do something about the lostness of the world, I'll do it." That's kind of a senseless prayer, because He has already told us what He wants for the world. Our prayer now should be that God guide us to our specific role. Whether we should be involved in the Great Commission is ger the question. How we should be involved is the question.

 

But if we have really experienced the gospel, then we'll be asking God to use us in His mission. We will say something like this: "Lord, let my life be a seed for others, like Yours was for me, planted into the ground. Let my dreams die so that others might live. Show me how to best invest my life for You and not for me. As You have been to me, I want to be to others."