Expensive Pal,
I haven’t checked, however I can’t be stunned to find that the content material of my letter written 4 years in the past on the brink of the US election was not dissimilar to this letter, notably in in search of to declare, “Hallelujah! For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns” (Rev. 19:6).
There are conflicting views on whether or not or not King George II truly stood up throughout the Hallelujah refrain on the London premiere of Handel’s Messiah in 1743. I prefer to assume it was so and may envision the sovereign of Nice Britain standing in recognition of Jesus, Messiah, King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and the viewers following his instance.
In 1820, Thomas Kelly, in his hymn “The Head That As soon as Was Topped with Thorns,” wrote, “The very best place that heav’n affords is His by sovereign proper.” This reality is foundational to the Christian’s view of every little thing, not least of all political beliefs. Christianity insists that God is at all times above authorities, the last word authority to whom authorities should be held accountable.
This attitude is vastly totally different from the prevailing norms in a society that’s more and more hostile to biblical Christianity. It’s crucial that we study to self-discipline ourselves to view the world by the prism of God’s Phrase. In deciding easy methods to vote, I’ve been helped by being reminded of this quote from Gresham Machen’s ebook The Christian Religion within the Fashionable World:
If we take the Bible because the Phrase of God, then the Bible turns into our commonplace of reality and of life. Once we are requested whether or not we are able to help any sort of message or can have interaction in any course of conduct, what we do is just to check that message or that course of conduct with the Bible. If it agrees with the Bible, we are able to help it or comply with it; if it doesn’t agree with the Bible, we can not help it or comply with it, it doesn’t matter what we could also be informed by different authorities to do.
So let me encourage you to vote in gentle of the clear teachings of the Bible and to bear in mind: “‘All flesh is like grass and all its glory just like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, however the phrase of the Lord stays ceaselessly.’ And this phrase is the excellent news that was preached to you” (1 Peter 1:24–25).
When the election outcomes are declared, and particularly if the result shouldn’t be as you had hoped and prayed, remind your self that, though it doesn’t at all times appear so, the Lord our God the Almighty reigns!
Discovering the windfall of God a mushy pillow, and with my love within the Lord Jesus,
Alistair
