My God and My Country

14 But how shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him, of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

The Epistle to the Romans 10:14 (GNV Translation Ed. 1599)

Also for your contemplation; Matthew 9:38, 28:18-20; John 20:31; Acts 8:26-35; Titus 1:3 

Good morning in the might name of our risen Savior Christ Jesus

Isaiah asks, who shall believe our report? (Isaiah 53:1). This is a legitimate question, who indeed will believe it? Yet it is not so much our worry to ask who will, but more our concern to make it known to them in the first place.  God wants all His children to accept His offer of grace and mercy. Yes, we worry that they are told, as to what they do with that knowledge is up to them in the end. 

“They cannot call on him in whom they have not believed. Except they believe that he is God, they will not call upon him by prayer; to what purpose should they? The grace of faith is absolutely necessary to the duty of prayer; we cannot pray aright, nor pray to acceptation, without it. He that comes to God by prayer must believe, Hebrews 11:6. Till they believed the true God, they were calling upon idols, O Baal, hear us. They cannot believe in him of whom they have not heard. some way or other the divine revelation must be made known to us, before we can receive it and assent to it; it is not born with us. In hearing is included reading, which is tantamount, and by which many are brought to believe. But hearing only is mentioned, as the more ordinary and natural way of receiving information. They cannot hear without a preacher; how should they? Somebody must tell them what they are to believe. Preachers and hearers are correlates; it is a blessed thing when they mutually rejoice in each other—the hearers in the skill and faithfulness of the preacher, and the preacher in the willingness and obedience of the hearers. They cannot preach except they be sent, except they be both commissioned and in some measure qualified for their preaching work. How shall a man act as an ambassador, unless he have both his credentials and his instructions from the prince that sends him?” - Source Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary.