“…. remember the heights from which you have fallen,” [Rev 2:5]
The USA have just held their Presidential elections (in case you missed it!). In the lead up to the election a lot was said about the political Left and the political Right, and about how good or bad “the other side” is. The name of God was also invoked on both sides.
Yet God says, “…my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,…. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” (Is 55:8,9)
There will be points where God’s truth agrees with the political Left, and others where it agrees with the political Right. But there will equally be points where God’s truth disagrees with the Left, and others where it disagrees with the Right. God’s truth stands above both, may inform them, and pass judgement on their falsehoods.
God calls us to listen above all to His Word, and therefore have our thinking and actions shaped primarily by His truth. This will enable us to see the truth and falsehood in all human thinking and actions, and know what to support, what to stand apart from, and what to oppose.
May the will of God, our good, good Father, be done in the USA, on planet earth, and in Australia, as in heaven!
Grace and cheers, Jonathan.