Sunday, May 2, 2010

Give me my piece of the pie, Lord!

It might be hard to see, but this pie chart is a representation of religious statistics for Cambodia.

I obtained this information from joshuaproject.net.

The chart on the left compares all the ethnic groups as a whole, and divides them into whether or not they have a significant church level established to sustain the spread of Jesus and Christianity. The chart on the right is more of an accurate representation of the Christian/Unreached population.

I don't know how to explain what I felt in my heart when I was looking over these statistics. I can only describe it as a combination of conflicting feelings. Feelings of incredible hope that God would bring salvation to the Cambodian people/s, and of despair, knowing there would be hundreds going to a Godless hell this week because no one was there, pleading the cause of Christ:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name, you are mine."
There were so many other thoughts and emotions, but I'll spare you the details.

Needless to say, I was moved. Not that I was previously unmoved, but things like this, they stir in me a deeper velocity towards the heart that desires His name to be known in all the nations so that He might receive the due praise of His eternal worth.

Amen and amen.
Let God move each of us within our own Holy ambitions as the Spirit leads.