Put Not Your Trust in Princes...

Right after Easter, I told someone in my church that I wished that I could go to sleep and not wake up until the beginning of Advent.   Not because I was tired, rather because I was not looking forward to this election cycle.  

 As I write this, the election is just a few weeks away, and the division and the negativity that I was worried about is even greater than I was expecting about back in April.  So, how are we, as Christians, called to handle and election like this?  First and foremost, we remember that the Lord is in control.  He is the one in whom we place our trust because in Him and His Son there is salvation.  This salvation won’t come through the next or any other president of our great country.  So no matter who ends up being elected, don’t put your trust in that person, but continue to trust in our God.

Second, as Christians we are called to “let love be genuine” (Romans 12:9), to “never be wise in our own sight” (vs. 16), and to “never repay evil for evil, but give thought to what is honorable in the sight of all” (vs. 17).  What would it look like if we followed these instructions as we interacted with others during this election season?  What if we sought to understand instead of be understood, to genuinely love others instead of labeling someone as a hater, to do what is honorable to everyone instead of repaying evil with evil?

Our Savior did just that.  He understood his fallen creatures’ need for redemption.  He genuinely loved others to the point of going to the cross and then forgiving those who placed Him there.  He did what was honorable, repaying evil with good – sins with forgiveness and death with life.

Please do your duty as a citizen of this country – VOTE!  But remember to put not your trust in a son (or daughter) of man, but in THE Son of Man, Jesus Christ, in whom there is full and free salvation. 

In His Peace,
Pastor Cory

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