Election Results Are In
As election results roll in, as believers we ought to have an unusual calm about us. Regardless of the outcomes, believers ought not revel in victory nor grieve in defeat the way the world around us does.
For we know that every person elected to office yesterday will have their term expire, so we celebrate not election season but Christmas season:
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end. (Isaiah 9:6-7a)
We have been told:
Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish. (Psalm 146:3-4)
Senate seats are up for grabs and may change hands, but Jesus Christ is:
Him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever. (Revelation 4:9)
Our God is enthroned in the heavens and his seat is never up for grabs:
The LORD sits enthroned as king forever. (Psalm 29:10)
And so may I remind you today, as I try to remind you every Lord’s Day:
The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. (Isaiah 40:8)
Christian, rejoice for our God can do all things and no purpose of His can be thwarted. (Job 42:2)
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