With our state's primaries taking place tomorrow, it seems every Bible verse I have read since the presidential race began
makes me think of the elections. Here are few more verses to consider when casting a ballot:
"Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring." (Proverbs 27:1)
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will ......— 14 yet you
do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a
mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. 15 Instead you
ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil." (James 4:13-16)
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A few personal applications:
- Let us not
choose our leaders based on the empty promises they make but on the
character they have demonstrated. Those who boast about what they will
do are assuming a degree of sovereignty that only God possesses. Pride
comes before a fall, and all who exalt an arrogant one as their leader
will come crashing down with him.
- Our lives on this earth are
but a vapor, so none of the suffering we endure here lasts very long in
the grand scheme of things, so do not grow anxious or afraid. The one
true eternal king reigns forever with both perfect justice and
extravagant love & mercy. No one knows what the next day on this
earth will bring, but we can know for certain where we will spend
eternity, and we can personally know our perfect King now and forever.
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