DAY 27: BORDERS #25WordAdventPrayers Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, and announced the gospel in advance to Abraham: “All nations will be blessed through you.” — Galatians 3:8 God does not have citizenship in any country. Of course, one may not know it from the hyper-patriotic rhetoric that seems to have infested so much Christian messaging today. As this is happening, I believe God weeps. As reverberations of “God Bless America” continue to be the guiding chorus for so many Christians, what if we believed that God blesses, not only the United States, but also China, Chile, North Korea, Jamaica, Nigeria, the Philippines, Venezuela, Russia, South Korea, Iraq, Israel, Ukraine, Haiti, Cameroon, Tonga, Palestine, Syria, Ethiopia, and every other country in the world? While none of us is perfect, in doing so we would soon realize God’s “nations” and how each cares for its members is far different than modern-day nation-states and the borders humans have dr...