I am compelled to provide an interlude to the Life and Lessons Series, which will continue when I obtain the power of stopping time, so that I can pause from fulfilling responsibilities of life and give more time to blogging.
I woke up this morning to look out my window and see a mess of cars and streams of people. I live across the street from the Ralph and Gladys Koehler Fitness and Recreation Complex on the University of Findlay campus. Today Sarah Palin was speaking there around 10:30AM. It has been quite the buzz around town, and I anticipated that this event, like the others at the Koehler Center, would mean that traffic around out house would get a little crazy. Police were everywhere, and as I left home to drive to work on this cold morning, I thought I wouldn’t make because of all the streets that were closed. As I arrived to work at the City Mission, a radio was on so that we could hear her speech in the office.
As I listened to what sounded like the Beetles at Shea Stadium in 1965 due to the shrill screaming, an array of thoughts blew through my mind, most of which I will not be sharing with anyone. However, I feel the need to give a piece of encouragement to my brothers and sisters in Christ during this and every other election season. Take note that we are not citizens of this world, and that our Savior is not either. I understand that many Christians believe heavily in the value of getting the right person in to politic office, but measure your excitement and faith in that person compared to Christ. Are we as Christian people praying and living with faith that Christ is the true source of power and control, or are we joining the world in celebrating another festering turd in the toilet bowl of political scheming that is just passing through making room for the next dump?
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. [Philippians 3:20]
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit. Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God’s people and members of God’s household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit. [Ephesians 2:13-22]
