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As politics heat up let’s work hard to keep our perspective. I heard a song that did that for me.
It’s good to be reminded, in the midst of all the rhetoric, that we are considering a president, not a king. Jesus spent a lot of time at the beginning of his ministry reminding those he taught to seek the “Kingdom of God.”
We can’t be right with God unless we make him our King. Equally, we can’t be right with God if we seat anyone else on the throne of our lives.
Here in America, we pledge allegiance to a flag but we, as Christians, need to be careful to reserve our highest honors for our King of kings.
Our news will be full of election rhetoric for the next few months, but there is another election to consider as well. The apostle Paul began his letter to Titus by saying, “Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began” (Titus 1:1–2).
Who are God’s “elect”? According to Colossians 3:12, the elect are God’s “chosen ones” who are “holy and dearly loved.”
We are going to elect a new president who will govern the country for a few years. The sovereign God, the King of kings, elected each Christian to become his child and live as someone who is holy and dearly loved. Shouldn’t that knowledge overwhelm us with reverent awe? That should be the perspective that carries us through this political season.
We will vote in an election. The day we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we attended the coronation of our King – now our Father in heaven.
It’s good to be reminded, in the midst of all the rhetoric, that we are considering a president, not a king. Jesus spent a lot of time at the beginning of his ministry reminding those he taught to seek the “Kingdom of God.”
We can’t be right with God unless we make him our King. Equally, we can’t be right with God if we seat anyone else on the throne of our lives.
Here in America, we pledge allegiance to a flag but we, as Christians, need to be careful to reserve our highest honors for our King of kings.
An election to count on.
It isn’t difficult to discern political speech from truth these days. There isn’t a lot of decent character in politics these days, or in politicians. As I said in last week’s blog post, every candidate we vote for is imperfect just like us.Our news will be full of election rhetoric for the next few months, but there is another election to consider as well. The apostle Paul began his letter to Titus by saying, “Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God’s elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began” (Titus 1:1–2).
Who are God’s “elect”? According to Colossians 3:12, the elect are God’s “chosen ones” who are “holy and dearly loved.”
We are going to elect a new president who will govern the country for a few years. The sovereign God, the King of kings, elected each Christian to become his child and live as someone who is holy and dearly loved. Shouldn’t that knowledge overwhelm us with reverent awe? That should be the perspective that carries us through this political season.
We will vote in an election. The day we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we attended the coronation of our King – now our Father in heaven.
