If your candidate won, in the latest election, do not gloat. If your candidate lost then do not moan. This election is not as important as some would make it out to be. The election that really matters is for those who place their trust in Jesus Christ not a president or earthly leader. God has chosen to elect those who trust in Jesus Christ for their salvation. If you are “in Christ” then you are elect of God. Read Eph 1:3-14
Election Promises
Look at all we get as God’s elect in Christ:
- Every spiritual blessing (v3)
- Made holy and without blame before Him (v4)
- Adoption as his children (v5)
- Accepted and beloved (v6)
- Redeemed and Forgiven (v7)
- Wisdom and Prudence (v8)
- The knowledge of his will (v9)
- The promise of being gathered together in harmony (v10)
- A future inheritance (v11)
- We will be a praise to His glory (v12)
- The Word of Truth (v13)
- and finally: The Guarantee of all these things by the Seal of the Holy Spirit (v14)
Now that is an election promise I can get behind! But we are not electing God he has elected us! He has already done it all. Is there then any reason left not to trust in Him?
Vote and Know the Time
As for our most recent election: it might not be what you think is best for our country. You may be upset about the outcome but remember we are not of this world and our hope is not of this government. We all want to leave a better place for our children but that is not always in our control. We can, however, do a much better thing. We can prepare them for any future by teaching them to live out the principles we preach and swear to believe in. We will teach them nothing good by complaining about the government and its leaders. We can show them steadfastness and Christ’s character by being men and women of integrity and in modeling trust in Jesus for the younger generation. We need to firmly communicate to our children and grandchildren that our hope is above and not here. It is much more important that we leave them with a legacy of how to exercise faith in uncertain times than is it is to even provide them with our version of what would be a great country.
It is our duty to vote and to vote based on our biblical values but now that this country’s election is over we need to read Romans 13 realize there is much more to our Christian walk as citizens than just voting and complaining about the results.
“Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are God’s ministers attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor. Owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,” “You shall not bear false witness,” “You shall not covet,” and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.”
And let us do these things as fellow Christians united in Him with love. So that we might, with all we say, refresh the hearts of the Saints.
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