Like many, I am very relieved that the presidential election is over. I’m not sure if I actually grow weary of politics in general, or rather, everything that goes along with them. But since there’s no way to separate the two, I’m just glad to have some political relief.
My political perspective is unusual in the worldly sense, but it is not unique among other ministers.
I view anything that dishonors the glory of God at a minimum as sinful, and at a max idolatrous, which CAN be anything, including politics.
Politics, like many things in our society, is not moral or immoral in nature, but amoral, which simply means that it is neither good, nor bad, in and of itself.
What bothers me most in the political arena is two-fold. First, I’m disturbed at how much hope I see people putting in politics to solve the problems of our country and secure the future of our nation.
Second, I also see people losing all hope because things didn’t turn out the way they expected. Both are wrong because both have placed their hope where it does not belong.
Jeremiah 2:12-13 says, “Be appalled, O heavens, at this, and shudder, be very desolate,” declares the Lord. “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, to hew for themselves cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
Why did God say this? What had his people done? They forsook Him by worshipping other gods, which Jeremiah and Ezekiel explains in great detail, and when they faced trouble, they turned, not to Him, but to other nations who also worshipped false gods. God’s people used the politics of the world as a solution to their problems. They put their hope where it didn’t belong.
The Lord compared His people doing this to a people with access to water ignoring their faithful and reliable water source, and trying to get some water themselves by their own devices.
This was a metaphor for the reality of what it looked like to God when his people thought all of their problems could be solved by a political alliance with idolatrous Egypt.
Why say all of this? It’s because I don’t want any of us to put our hope ANYWHERE except where it belongs- with our God who is all powerful to care for His own.
Let’s learn a lesson from the past and not make the mistakes of those who came before us.
Much love!
Wes LeFlore (918) 607-8489 or huskeres1@gmail.com
