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The theme for our reflection is “God as all things to all people”. God as all things to all people means God has a plan for everyone to be saved. We shall reflect on the fact that believers or disciples of Christ represent God in the proclamation of the Gospel or the Good News to all people.

Beloved in the Lord God as all things to all people is possible when we believers understand our role as proclaimers of the Gospel or Good News through our interaction with other people. Paul saw himself as one being used by God to save as many people as He could, “To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. ²³ I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings. (1 Corinthians 9:22-23). Jesus also became all things to all people so that those who repent and believe in Him will be saved. We are told in Luke 5:29-32 that “Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. ³⁰ But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?” ³¹ Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. ³² I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” In other words, Jesus represents God as all things to all people by taking our human form and associating Himself with sinful humanity. It for this reason, Paul wrote to remind the Philippians that Jesus “made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. ⁸ And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death — even death on a cross! (Philippians 2:7-8) It is Jesus’ humility and sacrifice that led to the salvation of all who believe in Him. In effect, through Jesus and the power of the Gospel God is deemed to be all things to all people.

Beloved in the Lord, like Paul, It is important to note that we are ambassadors of Christ and must endeavour to reflect the image of Christ wherever we find ourselves so that through us God will become all things to all people so that by all possible means some might be saved . “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! ¹⁸ All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.” (2 Corinthians 5:17-20). Whether we are at work, office or at home, God is counting on us to be all things to all people through our regeneration and preaching of the Gospel through our ordeal relationships. In our encounter with others let us be careful to project only God, it is for this reason John the Baptist proclaimed, “He must become greater; I must become less.” (John 3:30)

In summary, we have reflected on the theme “God as all things to all people” We have discovered that through our readiness to preach the Gospel, God works through us by becoming all things to all people so that as many as are willing to be saved shall have eternal life. Shalom.

PRAYER
Almighty God, strengthen us to follow the perfect examples of Jesus Christ so that through us, You will become all things to all people for the salvation of the lost and perishing in the world. Amen.