Discussion/devotion of the day….

It is amazing to me, how much we get caught up in the intrigues and plots and plans of government.  How much anxiety, how much sin, how much pain is created when we look to our governments, when we look to our candidates to provide that which can only come from God.  (somehow we also do this with athletes, which is even more perverse…)

Do we really think that the problems caused by sin will be overcome if our guy wins?  Is there any proof that if our opponent wins, that somehow he can override the will and work of God?  How much of God’s peace can be stolen from us by politicians?  How much of what really matters can be overcome?

A survivor of the Spanish Civil War, which was brutal on both sides, which had believers on both sides, which had pastors and priests killed by both sides, wrote this,

“The measures taken by some governments to ensure that the faith in their countries dies out reminds me of the seals set upon the tomb of Jesus by the Sanhedrin. He was not subject to anybody or anything, and despite those seals, he rose again!” (1)

It isn’t rocket science to realize that in this day, people have turned politics, like so many things, into a form a idolatry.  Can we, for a moment, for a day, trust in God more than we trust in the war for “right” or “wrong” in the elections?  Can we find our unity in the one who didn’t run for office, but ran to the cross for the joy set before Him?  Or will we be like the Israelites, who forsook God’s reign, to have a king…

Lord Have Mercy on us!   Help us to look to you for the peace that the world and its governors and kings and presidential candidates cannot deliver…

(1)Escriva, Josemaria (2011-01-31). The Forge (Kindle Locations 1084-1087). Scepter Publishers. Kindle Edition.