As Americans, it's often helpful to be reminded that the epicenter of Christ's kingdom is not located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. And the purposes of God have never been thwarted at the hands of men---a streak that's not about to end on November 6. Such a recognition isn't quietism or escapism---just biblical Christianity.
President Obama and Governor Romney are, like you and me, feeble creatures of dust. They're worthy of our honor (
Eccl. 10:20;
1 Pet. 2:17), but never our hope.
So pay your taxes, choose your candidate, and cast your vote (politics does matter, after all), but do so as one whose trust is anchored in another world. As citizens of "a better country" (
Heb. 11:16; cf.
Phil. 3:20), we the people of the risen King await "new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells" (
2 Pet. 3:13).
Whatever comes of our quadrennial sojourn to the ballot box, we can rest in the sovereign goodness of a Father who sits enthroned in the heavens and, with majesty and mystery, does whatever he pleases.
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