Kristiina Wells shares her thoughts on how we, as Christians, can respond to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.
Someone once said to me that those who have a heart for the Israelis but not Palestinians do not fully have the heart of God. I was a 19-year-old girl from Finnish Lapland who had moved to Jerusalem to participate in a Bible study program at the time. He went on to say that those who have a heart for Palestinians, but not Israelis, do not have the full heart of God either. God’s heart is for both people groups.
I struggled to understand the depth of that lesson then, but the words carried me through as I spent over two years living in Jerusalem, serving Holocaust survivors in Haifa and helping out at a children’s summer camp in Ramallah. Little did I know that my heart would be shaped through the interactions with both nations and that my journey with God would take me around the world, yet regularly back to Jerusalem.
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