I thought it best to reflect a bit on the elections America has just held in order to give some biblical perspective to what has been a consuming event for our nation for months. 

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Many believers rejoiced today to see the results of the elections. Many other believers did not.

Whichever camp you may find yourself in, it would be good to remember that

        no politician is our enemy …and

                 no politician is our savior.

Only God can make America prosperous.

Only God can protect America from its enemies.

Only the Church can move God’s hand to do either. 

God is not waiting for Congress to act or the President to sign a bill or the governor to change the laws. He’s waiting on the Church.

The rise and fall of nations lies mainly in God’s hands.  He alone determines how long a nation is prosperous, safe and remains a nation.

God is waiting for His people to humble themselves, call upon Him and repent from sin so he can heal America and restore the blessings of prosperity and safety we once knew.

America is full of sin and so is the Church of America.

Elections mean nothing to God compared to what he sees in the hearts and lives of His people.

Listen again to what God told King Solomon just after fire came from heaven and God’s glory filled the new temple in Jerusalem.

2 Chron 7:13-22

“I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a temple for sacrifices.

13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there.

17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’

19 “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them,20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 21 This temple will become a heap of rubble. All who pass by will be appalled and say,‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’22 People will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who brought them out of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—that is why he brought all this disaster on them.’”

We have a better covenant and therefore are more accountable to God than the Jews were.  We know God better than they did.  Listen to the tender, gracious heart of God in this passage and also hear the stern warning from God.  He is both: incredibly gracious and incredibly stern when He is forsaken by His people.

Dear friends and fellow followers of Jesus, please do not be consumed with politics. It is important to elect good people to office but they cannot fix what America’s sin has broken.  Only the Church can. Please pray for the followers of Jesus in America.  They hold the future of America in their hands…in their prayers of repentance.

Let’s live for God passionately, turn from sin relentlessly and pray for God to awaken a sleeping, sinful American Church so America can be saved.  God’s Father heart longs to be gracious to America again but He is waiting on His Church to partner with Him through repentance.