Finding Peace

Let's be honest. Yesterday did not turn out like many of us wanted it to. How can we afford another four years? What's going to happen? How on earth could our President get reelected after four years of failing? What is my future going to look like now? Is liberty dying? These are just a few of the questions running through our minds. I'm not going to deny that I'm scared. That I'm struggling not to picture the worst possible future as a result of this election.
However, this as Christians who believe in the sovereignty of God, this is no way to think or act. Romans 13:1-7 (which I'm sure many of you, like me, have read many times since last night) says:

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. ² Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. ³ For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, ⁴ for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. ⁵ Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ⁶ For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. ⁷ Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.

President Obama is president of the United States because God determined it. President Obama is God's servant, elected by God to carry out God's plan for our country, whether we like it or not. This is not a time to complain, but a time to pray. To pray as we should have been doing and as we should continue to do. To pray for our country and our leaders, especially our president. To pray that we would not become angry towards God, but turn to him even more and trust in his sovereignty. It is a time to pray, but also to act. Keep fighting for what you believe in! Fight for the widow, defend the fatherless. Join a campaign, do what you can for your country. Stand up and fight for what you believe in! We still have freedom of speech and religion. Thank God that we can go to church every Sunday without fear of persecution! Do not give up, do not lose hope. Our God is an awesome God, who reigns over heaven and earth. He is in control of the horses! (Revelation 6) Keep living your life to the glory of God on high, praying as he has taught us in his word. 

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory. Amen.

Find peace in the sovereignty of God.

"Remember this and stand firm,

recall it to mind, you transgressors,

remember the former things of old,

for I am God, and there is no other;

I am God, and there is none like me,

declaring the end from the beginning

and from ancient times things not yet done,

saying, 'My counsel shall stand,

and I will accomplish all my purpose,'

calling a bird of prey from the east,

the man of my counsel from a far country.

I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;

I have purposed, and I will do it."- Isaiah 46:8-11