“Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession” (Ps 2:8). What a petition is this! Here Jehovah is suggesting to His Son, the King, an appropriate request to make of Him.
Yes, He, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, is the only rightful Heir to the throne of Israel. But, says His Father, “It is too small a thing that You should be My Servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones of Israel; I will also give You as a light to the Gentiles, that You should be My salvation to the ends of the earth” (Isa 49:6).
Our Jesus deserves more, much more! So the question is, Could we join today in the spirit of this request to pray that our Savior will increasingly be God’s salvation to the ends of the earth? What would that be like? We could pray for the opening up of lands now closed to the gospel. We could pray for more laborers to be thrust out into the harvest. And, of course, we could pray that the Lord would use us to point someone to Him!