January 04, 2008

The great hope for our nation

CandidateVotes%
Barack Obama94038%
Jonathan Edwards74430%
Hilary Clinton73729%

Mike Huckaby39,81434%
Mitt Romney29,40525%
Fred Thompson15,52113%

The votes in Iowa have been cast. The polling data gave way to the actual vote counts. Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Mike Huckaby are the big winners—REALLY big winners. After the tight polling data in the past few weeks, the political pundits were all calling a very tight race for both the Democrat and Republican nomination races. It did not turn out that way. There were decisive victories on both sides. Obama took 38% of the votes to the second- and third-place runners: Edwards with 30% and Clinton with 29%. After polling relatively close to Mitt Romney for the past few weeks with a few ups and downs on both sides, Huckaby won decisively with 34% of the votes to Romney's second-place finish with 25%. Fred Thompson came in third with a mere 13%.

I'm pleased with the process. It can be frustrating and annoying at times—especially when the seemingly never-ending political ads begin to hit the television and radio stations. But it's good to see that our country decides these things in an orderly fashion with few, if any, hiccups and without civil unrest.

I am a part of what has been called "the Religious Right." And I have accepted that moniker in the past proclaiming that it's true, "I am religious ... and I'm right." But when the dust all settles and the news agencies report how strong the Religious Right is in the American political scene, we Christians must realize that politics is not the great hope of the people in our nation. Political figures are not the great hope for our future. The great hope for the people of our nation and of all the world is the news that Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, died to pay the penalty of our rebellion against God.

Christians should be involved in the political process, even to the campaign and political activism levels. But we must not allow ourselves to place our content, comfort, and hope on the instability of the American political process. We must place our hope, our comfort and our joy in the immovable Rock, Jesus Christ.

It's not conservative or liberal, however they're defined. It's not about interpretation or the judgments of the mind It's the opposite of politics, power or prestige It's about the risen Savior, and whether we believe It's still the cross; it's still the blood of Calvary That cleanses sin and sets the captives free It's still the name, the name of Jesus That has the pow'r to save the lost It's still the cross

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