Last week, I began with the first installment in the series, The Purpose Of Nations, using Biblical passage to introduce this topic and emphasizing that God recognizes our diversity. I emphasized that God makes a very loud statement by saying that no matter our differences; culturally, ethically, racially, etc., one spirit unites us all. The message is clear. It is the spirit of God that makes us one. It is in God that we are all one and equal, yet not cancelling our diversities. Only God can do that, a celebration of diversity!!!

Coming back to our main message, what I am going to focus on today is that every nation, every ethnic group, every culture, and every country under the sun has a definite purpose for their creation. More significantly, it is essential that each one of these nations, discover their purposes. Let me quickly point out that there are general purposes for all nations as well as more concrete and specific purposes for each nation.

In regards to how to discover the specific callings and purposes of each nation, that would be a discussion for another day. Following the events of the aftermath of the flood, according to Genesis 10:5, “From these the coastland peoples of the Gentiles were separated into their lands, everyone according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.” After the flood, when the survivors began to grow, increase and multiply, God almighty saw the need to distribute nations by territories, lands, languages, families, tribes and nations. Obviously, this distribution and separation into lands and territories, happened only after the event of the Tower of Babel as recorded in Genesis 11:7-8, when the languages were first divided.

“Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city.”

Even though the events leading to the division into languages at the tower of Babel was indeed a tragic one, yet it is obvious that God had a place in his heart originally for nations, languages, continents and diversity in general. Especially since as seen above in Gen.10:5, God had intentionally divided the people by their languages to their various lands, territories and nations.

Why was God doing all these? Anyone who has studied the acts of God would tell you that our God is not a chaotic God. He is not confused, disorganized, disorderly or unthoughtful in his actions and deeds. Which means everything he does is well thought out. If he decided to create diversity through nations, people groups, tribes, nationalities, then he definitely has a purpose for it. He has a purpose for every tongue, a purpose for every tribe, a purpose for every ethnic group, a purpose for every nationality and a purpose for every country and nation. At this time my friends, have you started wondering what the purpose is for your nation? What the purpose is for your tribe? What the purpose is for your people group? Is there any purpose for Nigeria? Is there any purpose for our composition? Could there be any reason why we all came together to become a country? Is there any place and purpose for every tribe? Each language? Each nation?

Friends, how beautiful would it be to just have a glimpse into the mind of God. That is where I am trying to take you to in this article.
By the way, I hope you still have not forgotten about PELEG. I am simply reminding you of it, not that I’m ready to talk about it yet. Let’s do more discussion on the purpose of nations before we get back to PELEG. Here we go, let’s look into a very crucial scripture for our studies today:

Deu. 32:8 “When the Most High assigned lands to the nations, when he divided up the human race, he established the boundaries of the peoples according to the number in his heavenly court.” (NLT)

There are several things to take note of in this scripture:
• It is God Almighty who assigned and divided lands to the nations.
• Note that lands are divided to nations. Nations therefore are God’s idea.
• God gives land to nations as their inheritance. That is, God as a father gives out inheritance to his children, to his heirs.
• When God divided the lands, he established boundaries for each nation.
• God is interested in race, hence he had races divided according to their kind.
• The beauty of the New Living Translation of the Holy Bible is the last part of this verse that says “according to the number in his heavenly court”. It tells us that the diversity we see here on earth in cultures, traditions, languages and nations, is in conjunction with what and how it is obtainable in heaven.

This passage above goes a long way to confirm the fact that God is a purposeful God. He does everything with already planned out intentions and purposes. He does nothing by accident. God is an organized God.

He has goals and purposes for everything he does or creates. So ladies and gentlemen, God has purpose for your nation. Which means God has a purpose for your nationality, God has a purpose for your tribe, God has a purpose for your clan, God has a purpose for your lineage, God has a purpose for your household, God has a purpose for your family and God has a purpose for you. (To be continued next week)