The Best Wishes Series
Note to readers: Conservatives are feeling anxious these days - we're on the brink of the most liberal policies our country has ever seen. Below is an older blog which applies still today.
Guest blogger: Brian McCrorie, Bowing Down
Best Wishes: Ryan, congrats on your marriage; be blessed and rejoice in your wife while being ever vigilant to protect this vitally important union against all that will try to drive it apart in the years to come. -Pastor Brian McCrorie
2006 November 8: The Powers that Be
As many of my readers know, I am an active participant in the political process. I do spend a great deal of time during election seasons campaigning for the candidates I support. This season was no different. In fact, for the first time in my life, as I looked at the touchscreen in front of me in the polling booth, I was pleasantly surprised to realize that I knew each of the candidates personally for whom I was about to vote. They have become my friends.
The election season gives opportunities for citizens to interact with leaders in their community who are striving for political office. Most of these extraordinary people do not know Christ as Savior. This election, two of my “friends” were born-again Christians which made the fellowship extra special. I try as hard as I can to show Christ through my words and my life to these friends.
Sometimes, there are opportunities to interact with really extraordinary people. My family had such an experience last Saturday when we were able to be up-close-and-personal with the President of the United States! It was a thrill to expose my children to a man I believe to be a great leader in our country. Even my three-year-old Jason (pictured above) enjoyed shaking President Bush’s hand!
Then came Tuesday.
In a few short hours, the men with whom I had toiled in the last several months began to lose, one-by-one. I felt their pain. They were remarkably gracious in their concession speeches, considering the level of negative advertising in recent days. They move on.
So must we.
Paul must have dreaded Roman elections. It seems from a historical perspective that quite a long string of Caesars held tremendous opposition to the Christians and their way of life and worship. He would, in fact, die at the hands of such a ruler. And yet, he gives us a remarkable exhortation:
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.
I have to admit: I don’t like thinking of Nancy Pelosi as a minister of God.
