God is in Control

It is two days after the election and like 50% of the American people, I am a little disappointed. My candidate did not make it to the White House. But my prayer for the day had been, "Father, please put into office whoever would be best so that You may be gracious and merciful to the US."

Tuesday evening before I went to sleep I read from the devotional book Moments of Peace for a Woman's Heart. This just happened to be my reading for that day:

HE WILL NEVER FAIL YOU
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He Who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:23 NIV  

All people fail at one time or another. The best-laid plans can come up short. God will never fail you. He is the one constant in your life that you can trust, utterly and without reservation. 

You won't have to wonder if He'll be there tomorrow or if He will still love you. He will. You can count on that and on all the other promises God has made to you in the Bible - more than 5,000 in all. Though He may not do things in the way you expect, you can be certain that He will never, ever let you down. He is faithful.

The Lord is faithful in all His words, and gracious in all His deeds.

Psalm 145:13 NRSV

His timing for devotions never ceases to amaze me. This little book does not have dates in it so that you are to read them on certain days. Nor did I start this at the beginning of the year. It was actually a gift from my daughter who thought I might need it while she is serving the Lord in Asia for 3 months. I could not have planned for this reading for Election Day; no one could. Only God could. He knew it was exactly what I needed to hear from Him so that I might be reassured.

Do I believe that God answered my prayer? ABSOLUTELY! AND I believe He answered yes to my prayer. I believe that the man put in the White House is the one God will use to be gracious and merciful to the US. The thing that I am realizing is that it may not be in the way I thought it should be.

I believe the true Christians are going to have to take more serious stands about what they believe. We are going to have to truly start loving our neighbours as ourselves. But even more importantly we are going to have to truly begin to love the Lord our God with our WHOLE hearts, and souls and minds. We must give up on the idea that we have rights. We are NOT OUR OWN. We were bought with a price.

Christ never promised an easy way. He said, "Take up your cross and follow Me." He did promise peace and joy and rivers of abundant life. The question is: Am I willing to take up that cross?  He will more than fully answer with His peace, joy and life. And from that I will see God being gracious and merciful t the US.