The election is
finally over. Clearly the country is decisively split. In spite of our
differences, however God is still God and God is still good. The sun still came
up on Wednesday regardless of how you or anyone else voted on Tuesday. Now is
not the time for victorious gloating or sour grape bitterness. I am astounded at
some of the unholy and unhelpful reactions I have read on social media. Instead
we would do well to heed the time honored words of our Methodist Founder John
Wesley who in 1774 said:
"I met those
of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them
1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy
2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and
3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side."
1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy
2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and
3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side."
The Apostle
Paul wrote: "So from now on we
regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in
this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has
gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who
reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of
reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to
himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to
us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore
Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us." (II
Corinthians 5: 16-20)
How are you
functioning as Christ's Ambassador this week?
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