I'm Moving Away. Want to Come?
Last Wednesday, I was talking with a few people in the Chapel about the upcoming election. Don't get too worked up over it if your candidate loses the election, I suggested, and don't look to any government or man-made organization to solve all the problems we face.
It's easy to say that you're not worried about the outcome of the election when you know that you're moving out of the country anyway, and I am. My new home is under construction right now, and as soon as it's ready I'm out of here.
I'm moving to Mt. Zion for a spell, and then I may be moving to New Jerusalem. Jesus said that He was going to prepare a place for us. This country is not our real home. This life is not the big show; it's hardly a dress rehearsal. So when stupid people vote for stupid politicians who win the election and do stupid things, I may be one of the stupid people who voted for them, but I won't be stupid enough to get bent out of shape over the dumb stuff they do. At least that's the theory.
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Amen! My place is being prepared too!
Great reminders Marty. I really enjoyed your sermon last Wednesday. I used to get spun up over politics and all the "right vs. left" bickering; but in the past few years, God has given me a greater appetite for His word than for the evening news. He's shown me that we waste a lot of time and energy on things that we have little control over or, in the end, won't matter a hill of beans. The things of this earth do grow strangely dim as we daily learn to trust and follow our Lord more closely.
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. You know the way to the place where I am going." John 14:1-4