God’s Dream - One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion Starters

God’s Dream

They sang a new song with these words: “You are worthy to take the scroll and break its seals and open it. For you were slaughtered, and your blood has ransomed people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. And you have caused them to become a Kingdom of priests for our God. And they will reign on the earth.”

Revelation 5:9-10

People will come from all over the world—from east and west, north and south—to take their places in the Kingdom of God. And note this: Some who seem least important now will be the greatest then, and some who are the greatest now will be least important then.

Luke 13:29-30

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and said, “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. . . . I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” His was an amazing, God-honoring dream. But it was just scratching the surface of God’s ultimate dream, his plan for the redemption of all races.

God’s dream is really more than a dream. It is a sure and coming reality that all of history is moving toward—the restoration of all things. It’s bigger than how people of different skin colors and backgrounds relate to each other. It’s about people from every race, every language, every tribe on the planet worshiping together around the throne of God. God’s desire is for people from “every tribe and language and people and nation” to be united by our worship of our one and only King.

When we overcome our natural prejudices and join hands with people of other races to glorify God together, we experience a little bit of heaven here on earth.

DISCUSSION STARTERS

Who do you know of another race who also worships King Jesus?

What do you think is at the root of racial prejudice? How does God feel when his children of different races look down on each other?

What is something you can do to live out God’s vision for racial harmony right where you are?