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Every Friday we share a post from an LDSR advocate. This week we have a post from Allyson about her reaction to last week’s UPG file post about the Tartars. Allyson is a college student from D.C. who loves speaking French and getting coffee with the girls in her small group.

I’d never heard about the Tartars before and would never have guessed where they are from. After doing some research I found out they are a people of multiple regions scattered across many borders. They speak several different variations of the Tartar language.

These people are mostly Muslim and live spread across the worlds of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. In prayer, I asked God to see them, His children made in His glorious image. I prayed for the men, women and children who don’t yet know that God is their Father in Heaven.

What the Tartars Mean to Me

I realized that in the hemisphere where I live we don’t spend much time thinking about the areas where the Tartars live. Those places are largely forgotten, seen as unimportant or viewed as lacking influence. Most of us probably cannot even name the countries where the Tartars live on a map, but God sees them and has not forgotten them nor forsaken them. In a world that is filled with polarizing secular and religious extremes, I pray God would win those whose hearts are distant from Him. In a world of wars, poverty, disease and dissent, where do we place our hope? Western civilization says we are our own saviors, and that only I can rescue myself and rise above. I believe something different.

Jesus paid the ultimate price and overcame death so that through him I can live free from a broken world. I can live eternally in Heaven with the Creator of the universe. So, now when I think about the Tartars, I remember that not one life is wasted or forgotten. If God created me then He also created everyone else on the planet. If God loves me then He also loves everyone else too. That is a kind of love that amazes me and is so far beyond my comprehension that I can’t help but want it more.

LIVE|DEAD

Live Dead is a reality of what it looks like to carry out Christ’s call to die to self and follow him. I could live my whole life pursuing what I believe is the perfect life, comfortable and peaceful within my own borders, and call myself blessed. Or I could answer a call to go for the people born into war, famine, and lands that have never heard of the name that brings salvation. I could be a blessing someone is waiting for. I can give my life to show others the One who gives life to all.

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