As I sit here this morning wondering what to write to our folks who were absent from our services yesterday many things course through my mind. Like many others I have to battle with becoming altogether too wrapped up in our national affairs. It is so difficult to hold on to any hope for our nation. It just seems to me that such a large amount of hard working and productive Americans find themselves in a vice caught between the two jaws. On the one side are our political leaders entrenched in a battle that seems more characterized by avarice, self-interest and run-away corruption, and on the other side a growing group of folks characterized by greed, jealously, laziness and irresponsibility. I just appears to me that government is not the solution, it is the problem along with the wicked and sinful nature of man.
Having said all of this I must recognize that I am certainly not one who has the ability to make indisputable and irrefutable judgments on such matters. On the other hand I am one who by God’s grace can site indisputable and irrefutable hope for that lovely group of people who have repented of their sins and been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ. Turn your attention on these delightful words of our Savior:
John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
What a joy it is to recognize that this world is not our home, we are only strangers and pilgrims, just passing through.
Hebrews 11:13-16 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.
We are not here to change this world, but to represent our God faithfully, speak of His grace and mercy and urge others to leave the hope of this world and attach to the Hope of the ages Jesus Christ. It is a great calling.
