...that you may

   bring salvation

to the ends of the earth.

        Acts 13. 47

(It is not unusual

for God's people

       to wonder

"What in the world

   am I doing here?"

But there are

    no random situations,

just divinely appointed ones.

This verse quotes

             Isaiah 49. 6,

that we -- yes, even us--

may be a light to those

who do not yet believe,

even right where we are,

geographically,

relationally,

situationally,

where God has

    strategically placed us.

Even among the most unlikely,

we are divinely appointed

     to bring His name there

and point others to Him.)

O LORD,

Help us to see

our difficulties,

our struggles,

our joys,

      differently

because we know You.

Help us to

          live out the gospel

in impossible places.

Even the uttermost

    is not unknown to You,

but where we have not

   yet discovered

   nor yet explored

to bring salvation,

even right where we are.

May others even here

  see something different

  in us

and that would be You.

May we live in such

a loving way

   that You would be seen.

Even in this.