This world is God’s
world.
And our great God
loves the world that He made
and
the beings He created to populate it.
The black people, the
brown people,
the
yellow and the white,
those
with slant eyes or straight noses,
the
rich and the poor, lowly or noble –
They are all God’s
people,
and
His love embraces each and every one.
Not all the creatures
of this world
are
citizens of the kingdom of God.
The people who shun
His redeeming love
cannot
inhabit the city of eternal light.
They become the
children of darkness.
They shall wander
forever
through
the limitless spaces of nothingness.
The sons and daughters
of God are those
who
relate to their Father and Creator,
who
walk in obedience to His will and Word.
They shall dwell
together in joy
and
shall sing and dance
in
perpetual celebration
in
that beautiful city
beyond
the boundaries and borders
[1] A reflection on Psalm 87 composed by
Leslie F. Frandt, Psalms/Now, St.
Louis, MO: Concordia Publishing House, 1973, 138.
