God's desire

For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-4

God desires all men to be saved.

That’s a profound statement. It makes us really aware of the task we have before. There is no one we can ignore because God desires that every person we meet to be saved.

When we cop on to that is should change everything about us. We walk through this world see a whole bunch of wacky out of control people living is a world of total chaos. There are plenty of God haters out there. I saw a t-shirt at a demonstration last week that said ‘Let Jesus come back, we’ll kill Him again.’

Hard to imagine isn’t it that God would want that chap to be saved? Why would God bother with a guy like that?

Because God so loved the world. That’s why. All the world. Everyone in it. And God desires that they all be saved – all of them – even that chap in the t-shirt.

That’s why we can’t see others with eyes of the flesh. We see those as Jesus did when he saw the crowd in Jerusalem and his heart moved within Him and he wept as He saw them as sheep with no shepherd.

All men need Jesus, that abusive police officer we see on the news, the violent looters and and rioters, the most insidious criminals and the most corrupt politicians – God’s desire is that they would all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. That ought to compel us to try to reach those we can and pray for those we can’t - even that chap in the t-shirt.