This Is My Story #4- Cornelius
The story of Cornelius is that he shouldn’t have been saved, or at least that’s what Peter thought. Cornelius and his family and his servants were not Jews. They were Gentiles. They were pagans. Heathens. Cornelius was a Roman soldier occupying the Promised Land! Surely God would not accept this foreigner who represented such evil in the land of Israel. These people were not the religious people that Peter was used to. In Peter’s mind they were all spiritually “unclean” and unfit to receive God. But God had other plan that shook Peter to the very core of his being. Not only did God want to accept Cornelius into His family, God actually foretold the salvation of the Gentiles (non-Jews) through Isaiah. “You will do more than restore the people of Israel to me. I will make you a light to the Gentiles, and you will bring my salvation to the ends of the earth.” –Isaiah 49:6. This story tells us of the great lengths that God will go to for the salvation of people from every nation.