In just over a week America will complete its
long-awaited midterm elections. It’s the time when citizens choose some of
their leaders from among candidates who have made promises to make life better
for everyone. It’s also being called the most important election EVER! So we
must all vote CORRECTLY so those we elect can make things better!
However, having come off a week of
meaningless bomb threats and senseless church killings, and a hailstorm of
half-truths, one must ask how any candidate or party can possibly make things
better.
Who, really, has the power or authority to bring healing
to a society so torn apart by hatred and mistrust as ours? What party could
ever have the right solutions or deliver on its promises? How could their promises
make a helpful difference anyway? Do candidates really believe they can make
lives better for all of us, or just better for themselves? Where can we find truth
or hope?
In our current times, the search for hope may seem
fruitless and futile, but they’ve always been this way. They were worse in
Luther’s day, and even worse when Jesus walked the earth. Life is worse when
people are enslaved by a foreign power. It is especially worse when that power
is the church. To find a solution, we must look outside ourselves, outside of
government and even outside of religion. We must look to God Himself and to His
Son Jesus Christ.
Yesterday’s Gospel was the familiar words of Jesus in
John 8:31-32, “If you continue in My
Word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth and the truth
will set you free.” Yes, truth can have the power to set us free from our
selfishness, our cruelty and our blindness, but it must be the real truth, the
whole truth, the Supreme Truth of Jesus in His Word. We will never find the
freedom we need in the precepts of mankind or political philosophy.
Cast your vote for the persons and in the manner you
choose, but don’t think it will solve everything. Only Jesus Christ our Lord
can bring us freedom from our chains of sin. Only He can give us peace for
today and hope for the future.
Lord Jesus, forgive us and
set us free!
Rev. Bob Tasler,
www.bobtasler.com
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