Sunday After Elections

Well, that was quite a week, wasn’t it?  Are you exhausted from the election, the post-election analyses, and for most of us, the post-election blues?  Finger-pointing, excuse-making, none of it matters.  After billions and billions spent, we have the same president, and basically the same house and senate that we had before the election.  At the state level, we now will be teaching our children in the government schools that marriage is the union of one adult and another and their sex doesn’t matter.  Children will soon start asking why marriage should only be limited to adults and why only limit the union to two persons?  But the good news is that now we can just light up and smoke a doobie and forget about it all.

No, a thousand times no.  We do not have to drop into the green smoke of despair.  And so, once again, the King of kings, meaning the King of America and all the nations, has summoned you to His throne for another council.  His intent is to call upon us to call upon Him, to bring forth His Word and shake the nations, beginning with us, beginning with His church which appears to be in a deep stupor of sin and compromise.  But that has never stopped our Lord and Good Shepherd.  He has a rod and a staff and He knows how to use them.  And so He intends to get our attention and then to call upon us to join with Him in ruling over the nations with the truth, with gospel love, with mercies that are new every morning.

 

We are not witnessing the signs of the end times.  These are signs of present judgment, present discipline, and the spankings will certainly be painful.  But our good Father knows how to discipline those He loves; His chastening is not joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness – and He intends to train us with it.

But it all starts here – at the throne and in His Lord’s Day service of worship.  We, the church universal, we do not believe that Jesus Christ has authority over all of heaven and earth; and so it should come as no surprise to us that neither does the rest of the world.  We therefore have turned and placed our trust elsewhere for the rule of our governments.  Feel the rod.  Kiss the Son, and call this nation to repentance.