What an exciting Election!
Let's pray for our new president
Barack Obama!
Check out Al Mohler's website
Below is excerpt of what he had
to say about our President!
We must pray that God would change President-Elect Obama's
mind and heart on issues of our crucial concern. May God
change his heart and open his eyes to see abortion as
the murder of the innocent unborn, to see marriage
as an institution to be defended, and to see a host of
issues in a new light. We must pray this from this day
until the day he leaves office. God is sovereign, after all.
Without doubt, we face hard days ahead. Realistically,
we must expect to be frustrated and disappointed.
We may find ourselves to be defeated and discouraged.
We must keep ever in mind that it is God who raises
up nations and pulls them down, and who judges both
nations and rulers. We must not act or think as
unbelievers, or as those who do not trust God.
America has chosen a President. President-Elect Barack
Obama is that choice, and he faces a breathtaking array
of challenges and choices in days ahead. This is the time
for Christians to begin praying in earnest for our new
President. There is no time to lose.
My 12 year old grandson Brian Jr really got into the
election. He volunteered, and called many households
to encourage them to Vote!
Do we have a future Politician?
I want to thank my son in-law Josh for putting Politics in Perspective!
Politics in Perspective
And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people
in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you,
but they have rejected me from being king over them.
only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways
of the king who shall reign over them.” 1 Sam. 8:7, 9 (ESV)
This past election--and every presidential election--is
a good reminder to Christians that their hope is not, nor
has it ever been, in human government. Here 1 Samuel 8
goes on to describe what the kings of Israel will be
characterized by, including taking from the sons of Israel
to set up an army for himself, taxing excessively, and
redistributing Israel's wealth for his own ends. In spite
of this the people still respond in verse 19, "No, but there
shall be a king over us [...]" If ancient Israel's God-sanctioned
human government wasn't the "answer," surely 21st Century
American government is not either.
Instead, the New Testament is overwhelmingly concerned
with the "Kingdom." Of the 158 times the word is used in
the New Testament, only a few don't refer to the "Kingdom
of Heaven" or the "Kingdom of God," which of course has
nothing to do with human government, but what God will
establish in spite of failed human government. As Jesus
says in John 18:36, "My kingdom is not of this world." And
Peter's admonition to "honor the king" (1 Pet 2:17) essentially
amounts to a command to pay your taxes, not to look to
human government as any sort of answer for society's
problems. Often government itself is the problem, as it often
was for ancient Israel.
Fear on the part of Christians over what the next few years
will bring is misplaced, and so is excessive happiness about
the results of the election. Even the best of human
governments (American) has proven its inability to bring
about a positive moral climate, and we can be sure this
trend will continue. Instead our hope lies completely
outside the realm of human government. It lies in what
God will do when he abolishes government and brings about
his own kingdom--the kingdom John refers to when he says
in Revelation 11:15: “The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign
forever and ever," reminding us that Jesus Christ is the only
one to whom we pay homage, and his the only kingdom in
which we place our hope.
-Josh
