Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum,

narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Canadian truck drivers have been blocking

a key U.S.-Canada border crossing for several days to protest their government's pandemic control

measures. They are specifically demanding an end to federal COVID-19 mandates for cross-border

traffic. Are these truckers trying to blockade our democracy, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau alleges?

Or, does the self-named Freedom Convoy have legitimate concerns, as a parliament member said

in speaking out against Mr. Trudeau's handling of the pandemic?

It depends on who you ask.

As a possible invasion by Russia looms, many evangelical

missionaries in Ukraine are staying in the country. They and the local leaders with whom they

partner are ministering to refugees and helping their people prepare for what may come.

Are they being foolish, or are they answering their commission to love the world as God loves

the world? Again, it depends on who you ask. We have been exploring this week the implications

for Christians of our status as the children of God.

Yesterday, we noted that if we are children of one father, we are members of one family.

We're called to love each other as sisters and brothers and to serve each other as we serve our Lord. Today, let's consider

a corollary fact. As the children of God, we are to love the world as God loves the world,

whether the world loves us or not. John 316 famously declares that God so loved the world that he gave his only son.

As 2 Peter 3.9 teaches, our father is not wishing that any should perish, but that all

should reach repentance.

He desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

If we love him, we must love everyone he loves, and he loves everyone.

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