- Zig Ziglar
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
The Name of the Lord be praised!
Well, another presidential election has come and gone. I know that there is lamenting in much of the country, rejoicing in the rest. There has been some good talk about working together, and some of remaining resistant. There is talk of the will of the people being thwarted by a lax system of voting which is very easy to abuse. Yet I urge those who say they believe and TRUST in God to listen: This was foreordained by the only and true God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Did this election take God by surprise? Is He on His throne, scratching His head and thinking, "How did I mess this up?" Is He frantically trying to gather Himself to work this for our good? NO!
God is Sovereign. God is Omnipotent. God is Omniscient. But most importantly of all, God is Good. And not only good, but the utter definition of the word "good".
So, what, then, do we, who believe in the Father, do? We draw near to God. We seek all the harder His Kingdom and His Righteousness. We take comfort in the truth that He had this all planned out long before we set out to cast a single vote for that which we voted. We pray, ever more diligently, for our country and our leaders. But the primary thing is that we draw near to Him.
Only by our own devotion to the Father can any change begin in this world. God promises that if we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us. So, my brothers and sisters in Christ, "Rejoice in the Lord, always; again I will say, Rejoice!" (Phillipians 4:4 ESV) God's perfect will is the only thing that actually won last night. And it is GOOD.
Did this election take God by surprise? Is He on His throne, scratching His head and thinking, "How did I mess this up?" Is He frantically trying to gather Himself to work this for our good? NO!
God is Sovereign. God is Omnipotent. God is Omniscient. But most importantly of all, God is Good. And not only good, but the utter definition of the word "good".
So, what, then, do we, who believe in the Father, do? We draw near to God. We seek all the harder His Kingdom and His Righteousness. We take comfort in the truth that He had this all planned out long before we set out to cast a single vote for that which we voted. We pray, ever more diligently, for our country and our leaders. But the primary thing is that we draw near to Him.
Only by our own devotion to the Father can any change begin in this world. God promises that if we draw near to Him, He will draw near to us. So, my brothers and sisters in Christ, "Rejoice in the Lord, always; again I will say, Rejoice!" (Phillipians 4:4 ESV) God's perfect will is the only thing that actually won last night. And it is GOOD.
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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