A more important election

This past week we had the election of our country in which the citizens voted for a president. The results turned out to be in favor of the liberal president we already have in office. A president who has not helped our nation lowering the national debt, has promoted same-sex marriages, and believes women have the right to kill their unborn babies. Knowing he will be in office for another 4 years has many of us looking to God for direction in our own lives. Looking for the peace we know we will find in Him because He promised to “Never leave us nor forsake us”.

This past Sunday, we had another type of election to think of, one that many probably have not thought of. If thought of, they dismiss it quickly from their minds. We were reminded of how and why God has provided this eternal, unconditional election to us believers. Reminded that the question is not “If God is so loving, why does He allow people to go to Hell”, but rather a thanksgiving to God for His love towards us and Christ’s love for us in being our mediator to God. The text was Jeremiah 31:3 “Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee”.

It is a comfort to learn God’s love has always been. It stems from the beginning of God, and He loves us merely out of His good pleasure. There is nothing in us which makes God love us, nor which gives any reason for God to love us. But He loves us because He loves us. It takes more power to save one soul then to loose a million souls into eternal destruction. Wow, what a willingness to give up His own Son for our sake. His love existed before we were even thought of by our families; He knew us by name and loved us since before the world began! How do we know if we are elect? By going to Christ, examine ourselves, the Holy Spirit will draw us closer and closer as we learn more about His beauty and more about our sinful selves. What a comfort to know Christ is in heaven pleading with the Father on our behalf.

Psalter 31 / Psalm 17

"Lord, hear the right, regard my cry, 

My prayer from lips sincere;

Send They approval from on High,

My Righteousness make clear.

Thou in the night my heart hast tried,

Nor found it turned from Thee aside.

When I in righteousness at last

Thy glorious face shall see,

When all the weary night is past,

And I awake with Thee

To view the glories that abide,

Then, then I shall be satisfied.