The Nations.

I always get goosebumps when I hear the word 'nations.' I could not tell you why. Every time it's in a song or every time I hear it or say it or anything I get chills. Weird.

The reason I'm writing this is because I was thinking about worship. I was thinking about church, and how we all were worshiping, and as I was worshiping I thought that this was only one group of people that worship. As I realized that I was in Texas, singing in English, there are so, so many other passionate churches all around the world, singing. I'm still getting goosebumps thinking. I thought about those crazy long church services in India, where the people are so content with sitting and worshiping and singing and drinking in Jesus, or the underground church in China, where the sense of urgency to lead people to the Lord are driving the citizens to endure torture from the government, to the passionate, loud, vibrant churches in Latin American countries, like Peru or Mexico. I think of all sorts of other countries that worship, no matter how few Christians there are, Zimbabwe, Sweden, Latvia, and how they all speak their native languages, how they all cry out to their God and praise him in each of their languages. It gives me such a peace and a cool picture to know that God knows all of their cries, their prayers, their requests, be it in Latvian, Chinese, Tamil, Hindi, Bengali, Spanish, or Swedish, or whatever it is. God knows it all. In each language he knows the nuance and the little things, the slang and those words that cannot be translated. I don't know why, but this picture that God can know EACH Chinese or Indian or Latvian individually, he understands and loves them each. Each faith is different. He knows it all. There are cultures under God, but he knows them all. It's diversity and unity in one. It's personal and community in one. Only God is big enough to do that, to know all and one at the same time.
God is good.