Dear Friends,
The political season is upon us. No doubt you’ve experienced the overwhelming amount of information and commentary flooding your devices. If you turn on the TV or open your social media, you are bombarded with an endless cacophony of political articles, commentary and memes. You can spend hours each day taking a deep dive into the candidates and their records, analyzing what they said and how they said it. You might even find yourself in conversations throughout the day with co-workers, family, and friends discussing the candidates and weighing in with your own thoughts.
Have you done that with Jesus?
I don’t mean to be trite. Of all people, I love a good meme. If I’m honest, I’ve probably listened to and read more on politics in the last several months than I’ve scoured through scripture. And I’m a Youth Minister.... in seminary. The reality is that it can be easy to get lost in a sea of political commentary or researching articles to justify and validate our viewpoints. Fortunately, you and I know that this world is temporary. We know that there is an eternal existence outside of this temporal world. We were created in the image of God to bear the very character, values and love of God into the world. Our lives should be oriented around the one who created us for himself. The one who stepped out of heaven and chose the cross, so that you and I could be brought back into a relationship with God.
Please don’t hear what I’m not saying. I’m not saying that politics aren’t important and that they don’t have a role in our lives. However, it is not the focus. Sometimes it can feel easier to talk shop on politics with the people around us and harder to talk about Jesus. You and I know that one has temporary implications and the other is eternal. Be encouraged! Fix your eyes on Jesus. Fix your eyes on the living hope that we have in the Savior of the whole world. For in Christ we find our hope, our strength, our purpose.
Hebrews 10:23-25
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
In Christ,
Kyle
