Don't lose your focus

I have a confession.   I hate politics.  And my husband's undergraduate degree is in history!  :) Every four years, during the Presidential Election cycle, we are inundated with political commercials.  The constant slander of one candidate or the other is so discouraging to me.  It is not long before the gloom and doom articles come out which all claim that our country will not last or how certain people want to move to another country if so and so becomes president.   It's easy to get our eyes so focused on hoping in a particular person or political party that we forget who our only Savior is.   No mere man or political party can change the hearts of the American people or any people for that matter.  Even if all the laws in America were changed to reflect biblical morality, it still wouldn't change people's hearts.  Remember in the Old Testament how the Israelites were given the Law?  It was a gift but still did not fix their hearts.  Our only hope is through Jesus Christ.

Almost nine years ago, I had the opportunity to visit my Susu (Kenyan for grandmother) as she was struggling with cancer.  It was the last time I got to see her alive.  I had the privilege of staying with her one Sunday morning while everyone else went to church.  Susu asked me to read her Isaiah 40.      Have you read Isaiah 40 recently?  If not, I would encourage you to do so especially if like me, you struggle with this election season.   Look specifically at verses 22-23

  [22] It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them like a tent to dwell in;
[23] who brings princes to nothing,
and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
(Isaiah 40:22-23 ESV)

On this particular morning nine years ago, the news was just being released that Saddam Hussein had been captured.   Susu wanted to remind me that though our Armed Forces are great and mighty, it was really our Almighty God who brings "princes to nothing and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness".

Look to Christ!   Read the end of Isaiah 40.   He is the Creator and does not grow weary or faint.  Don't put your trust in men (or women).  You will constantly be disappointed if you do.  Put your trust in our Eternal and Everlasting God!


[28] Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
[29] He gives power to the faint,
and to him who has no might he increases strength.
[30] Even youths shall faint and be weary,
and young men shall fall exhausted;
[31] but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.
(Isaiah 40:28-31 ESV)