Last night I was praying and..

Last night I was in my bed, talking to the Creator of the universe (:D).

I appealed to Him regarding a muslim lady. I don’t really know much about her save for the fact she teaches Islam and has cancer which has spread to her pancreas and onto most of her body. She is also the mother of G.- my good friend Anisha’s boyfriend. I didn’t really know what to pray for her, except for her salvation and for God to take her into His care when she passes from this world. I acknowledged that I know the scripture tells us that Jesus is the Truth and the only way to the Father. But I also know that He’s a wonderful, loving God, and that in the book of Revelation we are told that not only will justice be done; but that every mouth will be stopped- we will all walk away knowing and understanding that justice has been done. 

And all I could think was that it really, really sucks that people who are good (at least in a worldly understanding of the word)* should perish out of ignorance. I don’t know much about the interface between Islam and Christianity but it’s my undestanding that they acknowledge Moses and his covenant with the Lord, and even Jesus, although only as a healer and prophet (is that a valid acknowledgement considering His true glory??)

And i fell asleep with my tiny human brain trying to rationalise God’s version of justice, so that it might include, generally, the ‘lost who are otherwise pretty good people’.

So my day today (priase Him for bothering to share Himself with me, God really is love) has been filled with little bits of understanding and revelation on the topic, and I think I get it now (at least so far as I will while I’m down here).

Part of that revelation has been to stumble onto an article that deals directly with the topic: http://www.radiantmag.com/2008/11/choose-this-day/

The website’s a pretty mad one in general so poke around if you’ve got a mo.

*as I typed this the Holy Spirit reminded me that “only God is good”