Romans 2:13-16

Sometimes we wonder how God can save those in unreached countries without christian missionaries going there first. I recently heard a story about missionaries going to a village and finding them worshipers of the God of heaven. They had angels come and visit them before the missionaries got there. Our God is an awesome God providing the needs of all when they need it. These native people wanted to obey all they had been told and they were longingly waiting for the book that they were told the missionaries would bring them. God has many ways of providing his word to the world.

This morning in homeschool we found this text, Romans 2:13-16, I remembered that story I was told. "For not the hearers are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law,....are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts"... Then when we who have the Bible or many Bibles hear the law and do not listen to do what it says, are we justified? Verse 16 says " In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."

My friends God has planted in every man's heart a longing to know who He is.  And when we hear stories of people who are living like Jesus but who have never had a Bible to read about him, we can know that he will not leave any heart who responds and says "Yes Lord, I will do what you say". He writes the law in their hearts and they are justified by accepting and obeying it. But he allows his children the privilege and joy of being involved in the spreading of His love!

Oh, what an exciting day it will be at the Great big Family Reunion when our Father in Heaven

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