Wednesday, March 3 – Day 15

Seeking His Light to Awaken the Lost
Seek God for the city… for revelation leading to repentance

“For those who have heard about You but remain stone-cold to You… Vindicate Your reputation by disclosing Your mighty mercy… that their stony hearts melt in view of how determined You are to love them. Cause them to behold Jesus…”

Encountering the “stone-cold” is a challenging experience in the life of a believer. Alive with the fire and passion given to us by Christ, it is sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes maddening to witness others walking in firm rejection of God. If you are like me, you may approach the hard-hearted like a special project. If we just have the right words, the right program, the right strategy, we can break through and “win one for Jesus.”

Facing an apparent failure to break through, sometimes we turn defensive. These “rejecters of God” become the enemy. We may give them several labels… secular humanists, faces of the culture of death, nazi-feminists, godless liberals… I think sometimes we hide behind the labels and battle lines out of fear of what it would cost us to be the Church who reveals the God who is determined to love the stone-cold.

Ezekiel 36:26 “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”

Let us have a fresh perspective today of seeing the stone-cold not as enemies whom we need to organize against but as an incredible testimony that God is writing. Let us approach those who would oppose or slander the work of the Kingdom determined to love them. May our approach to vindicating God’s reputation not be in our protests, our petitions, or our carefully crafted talking points but in disclosing the mighty mercy of the Father through radical love. My prayer is that as we collectively love them, in us they would behold Jesus.

Katie Sandquist
Aid to Women