Today’s encouragement comes from a very relevant text—Ps. 125:3a, which says this:
“For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest on the land allotted to the right-eous . . . “The Holy Spirit is teaching us (in this text above), that Christ’s true church will be delivered from the rule and oppression of godless people. Even as we all anticipate the results of tomorrow’s election (in the USA), our hope and our perspective is to be properly-construed. Our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ, and our worldview is to be Christ- and church-centered. What happens in cul-ture and society is always designed, by God, to conspire for the good of His true and regenerate churchmen.
Even *if* the godless take temporary control of the government—this situation will not have any lasting energy. As we pray for our nation, let us keep the church here at the forefront of our petitions. May all our responses to the events of the next days and weeks be previously-determined (by us), to give God all the glory.
[Puritan quote of the day: "He that enjoys much of God in this life carries heaven about him. . . . The enjoyment of God's sweet presence here is a down-payment of our enjoying Him in heaven.” —Thomas Watson, in, "A Body of Divinity"]
