Pondering our Times

When politics are your main bedfellows, you will be irrationally exuberant or depressed every four years. God has given us a better path, one that is less traveled, but all the more comfortable in its narrowness. We all hope for a better world and vote our consciences every four years for that world, but some of us place too much hope in one side or the other. 

This election is peculiar to me, for I have met people who I would categorize as being too much on both sides. Let me remind you that we are to look to the Lord for our salvation, and that he himself has told us that “neither is there salvation in any other”. 

We forget so easily that He is the one in control of this world, and that all is unfolding just as it should. It does not mean that everything in this world is working for the best—it definitely does mean that God is in overall control, and that we need to trust Him even when our favorites are not elected.

We see so little of what is going on, and we often make mistakes when we look at that “little” and try to make bigger decisions. I am convinced that we would, if God allowed, vote ourselves into the Hell of our choice. We have no idea of how things are going to work out—except that we are supposed to trust in Him to work all things out.

If Christ were here today, living among us, would he be a liberal or a conservative? The answer should be so obvious to you as to cause scoffing, but surprisingly we often forget. He will one day rule correctly, and we will have an enduring peace on earth along with a new heaven and earth to look forward to.

In that day, there will be no conservatives, and no liberals. There will only be followers of Christ. I daresay my two friends, caught up in both ends of the political spectrum, will be united in Christ. Let us then follow the admonition, “forgetting those things which are behind, and pressing onward to those things which are before”.

If the words of our Lord are at all to be believed who won or lost will not matter much in eternity, but how you and I act toward each other will matter much. That is what we will appear before Christ to show. Let us therefore be found busy, loving one another. Perhaps today?