Never Beyond the Pale

Sometimes I think we wonder whether a person is beyond God's reach or beyond the pale. In this regard, I have recently been reading about a man named John Craig. He was a Dominican Friar who spent a number of years in a monastery in England. He then went to live in a monastery in Bologna, Italy. As he was in the monastery library one day, he ran across a copy of Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. He read it and was converted to the doctrines of grace. Craig went back to Britain and he became a ministerial colleague of John Knox. Later he was the minister to King James (1580-1600). Don't you wonder how Calvin's Institutes made into a Dominican monastery? God's hand can reach anyone at anytime at any place. His hand reached into a Dominican monastery in Italy and plucked John Craig to use him as a light of the true gospel of Jesus Christ. This is encouraging: no one is beyond the pale if God sees fit to shine into one's heart with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.