Thud. Cringe. Our precious 16-year-old chihuahua has walked headfirst into the wall again. She has gone blind in her advanced age. It is painful to watch. I wish I could warn her whenever she is about to collide with something, but her ears have grown dull, and she hears very little. So I close my eyes and cringe.

God reminds us of the unreached: “For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people” (Isa 60:2). God, whose ways are higher than our ways, higher than the heavens are above the earth, must be infinitely more pained as He sees His children in their darkness and blindness on a collision course with sin, day after day reaping pain and sorrow. He can’t close His eyes to it. He sees and feels it all.

This hour of earth’s history is no time for us to close our eyes and cringe. “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee . . . But the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to the light” (Isa. 60:1-3). What can we do with the light God has given us?

Pray that all God’s people, and especially the missionaries to the unreached, will be “filled with the Holy Ghost, and (speak) the word of God with boldness” (Acts 4:31).

Give. “Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver” (2 Cor. 9:7).

Go. “Multitudes will be called to a wider ministry” (Education, p. 262).

How is God calling you?

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