Monday, October 29, 2018

THE TRUTH WILL SET US FREE


        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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