Greetings

Hello friends,

Ahlan wa sahlan! Welcome to this modest blog. Inshallah someday it will be more. My name is Seth Wilson, I'm currently in Colorado, USA but spent the last year in Lebanon, hopefully will be going back to the Middle East shortly.

My prayer for this page is that God may use it for His glory to bring the nations to Himself through Jesus Christ, that they might find reconciliation through His blood shed on the cross. In Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, it says:

For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

In the apostle Paul's letter to the believers in Ephesus (now Turkey), it also says:

Remember that at that time you were separate from Christ...without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

So God has made reconciliation, forgiveness and healing possible through the death of His Son Jesus Christ on the cross. He offers us reconciliation, and through us He reaches out to others with the same reconciliation. Anyone who has truly found peace in Christ will be a peacemaker, then, an ambassador of Christ, displaying the peace Christ has given us in our relationships.

It is my fervent prayer that God may heal the wounds that exist in the Middle East, between Jew and Arab, Palestinian and Israeli, Christian and Muslim--all the dividing walls of hostility that Jesus died to break down. And I believe the only way that true reconciliation is possible between people is by their receiving the reconciliation God has offered us in Jesus.

May the Lord bless you all richly and abundantly. Jesus said, "I have come that they might have life, and have it abundantly." May this life be yours today, and may the power of its joy and love overcome the death and sorrow that so enstrangles the land where Jesus once lived and died.

Seth Wilson