As we seek God’s wisdom as to how we honor him, not only on Tuesday, but our entire lives, we need the proverbial “big picture.” And the big picture is that this is not about God and America. This is about God. Everything is about God and his glory. The big deal is not you, not me, not our country, not this coming election, not supreme court justices. The big deal is a holy God and his glory and his sovereign rule over the affairs of men.
And many have lost sight of that.
- (Psalm 11:4 ESV) The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’s throne is in heaven; his eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man.
- (Micah 1:2 ESV) Hear, you peoples, all of you; pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord GOD be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.
- (Habakkuk 2:20 ESV) But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.
Some things are too plain to see because we refuse to face the reality of this world as presented in the word of God. We don’t see what we need to see because we have turned our eyes to ourselves, the “little picture.” And often we do not hear what we need to hear because we do not see the personal benefit to our lives. In our “little picture” of life God is not above all and over all. Instead of “he who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches,” our attention has been diverted to all manner of media, whether right or left, liberal or conservative, Christian or non-Christian, who either do not know or have forgotten that this whole thing is about God. All about God. From before the creation of this world to long after this world becomes an annal in the history of God’s grand and glorious plan.
So how do we see these things that are sometimes too plain to see. How do we make sense of the seemingly unprecedented events of our country and our world?
The Bible. There is no other choice. If this is all about God, and if we want to make sense of this world, then shouldn’t we reference the Book that gives the only accurate account? The only reference that honors God as God and gives him the glory due his name. This is not about God and America. This is about God, the King of glory.
So let’s look to our Bibles and approach the conflict in a way that honors him.
Message: “The Peace that Jesus Gives!”
Message Text: John 14:27, 16:33 & Selected
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