Abraham was led out from amidst heathenism, from faith to faith, and his descendants were beloved for their father's sake.
To them God committed his truth.
They failed to realize what the profit of being a Jew was, and rested confident, in their high profession, with the thought that God must think more of them than any other people.
God had given them the light that they might carry it to others. But filled with pride they did not do the work, and God bore with them generation after generation.
During the captivity he revealed to Daniel that He would yet wait 490 years longer for his people to carry the light to the world.
Yet God cared for the Gentiles, and "left not Himself without witnesses."
Q: Do we not see a tendency among us as a people to boast of the light we have, and to feel that the Lord must have a special regard for us as a people? 
But He has given us the light
only that we may carry it to others.
If we boast of the light, but do not carry it to others, God will bear with us long, but finally some one else will take our place and do the work."
E.J. Waggoner
