Council Grove Christian Church

11/4/26
Servants of God,
 
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses,
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.”
-Psalm 20:7
If you want to know what a person trusts in, observe carefully how he or she reacts to adversity or disappointment or set back. Where we turn when life goes south reveals our hearts. Today will be a time when many hearts will be laid bare. The midterm elections are history—at least mostly so. There will be the normal voter fraud and election-stealing maneuvers for a few more days, but for the most part the results are in the books. How are you feeling?
American voters held true to form. The party that was out of power won more contests than the party in power. Many of the elections yielded alarming results. It was as if millions of Americans gullibly believed that the opposite of what they currently had would automatically mean improvement of the country’s problems. Voters in a fit of dissatisfaction, threw one set of bums out only to usher in an even more dangerous set of bums.
 Michigan elected a Muslim senator with socialist leanings and ties to terror organizations. Kansas now has a slick-talking  Elmer Gantry for a senator. Texas put a profoundly confused seminary student in the senate. In fact, ruby-red Texas is covered with blue this morning. For some, these results will be either crushing or exhilarating. The person who  trusts in politicians will be about as stable emotionally as a cowboy on a bucking pony. Christians dare not live that way. Politics are important but only superficially. Things that are important lie buried under the political struggles.
In a democratic republic such as ours, politics will always be important for Christians because we know we are called  to be responsible citizens and good neighbors. We always need to exercise our freedom to speak and act responsibly. That includes acting wisely at the ballot box. We ought to try to influence the culture around us with the gospel message in ways that honor God and foster human flourishing. We must never trade putting trust in “chariots” for trusting in the living God whose proven nature and character guide us as we live according to his inspired and sufficient word. Only a biblical worldview can properly guide us to live out our lives to the glory of God and the good of our neighbors.
Our fellow American voters need to be seasoned with gospel salt and enlightened with the bright light of gospel truth. Flip flopping from one political party to the other hoping to find some human being who will give us the ultimate answer to the meaning and purpose of life is a fool’s errand. When the good citizens of Kansas wake up to the true character of the huckster Adam Hamilton perhaps some will lament falling for a wolf wearing sheep’s clothing, but it will be too late to avoid the damage that men like Hamilton inevitably do when they get into positions of power.  In time the nation will realize that the socialist lies and obfuscations that sound so wonderful are a thin veneer covering a great deal of wickedness.
The world we live in is boiling with false philosophies and the worship of numerous idols. This is not something new. When humans forget God they inevitably turn to lesser alternatives. The scripture warns of the danger of suppressing the truth about God. It makes humans stupid and gullible. Soon, in that sort of a culture, people no longer are able to tell the difference between a boy and a girl and they get the notion that killing other humans and waging war on other nations is some sort of sure-fire answer. The chariots and the horses are always impressive options to those who are deluded by false promises and blind to the reality of sin.
May God awaken his church in America so that truth can be believed and proper worship rendered to him by presenting our lives to God lives as living sacrifices.
Blessings,
Pastor John
Coram Deo