Jesus Christ Is Not a Politician

It seems much political energy has already exhausted itself. With months till election day apathy abounds. Three presidential candidates have already been chosen, and, for many, none of the three raise any excitement whatsoever. Perhaps we are getting better at seeing through flashy rhetoric. Perhaps we know what it means to be human. We all know that, whoever wins, 2009 will be will be about broken promises.
Yet, beyond a group of hawking salesman, there is reason to be hopeful in 2008. Reason to hope, to sing, to be joyful, to smile, to burst out laughing. Optimism is fitting, for America, for the world, for your city, for your neighborhood, for your family, for your future. Because, although there will never be a a savior on capitol hill, Jesus doesn't live in Washington:

"He is not changeable in his disposition, as men are who are called to any office or business which causes them to appear and act very differently in their offices at some times from what they do at others. But Jesus Christ is in this respect the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is ever disposed to execute His office in a holy manner. He ever has been, still is, and ever will be disposed to execute it so as to glorify His Father, to discountenance sin, and to encourage holiness. He undertook the office of a Mediator from eternity with delight. He then delighted in the thought of saving sinners, and He still delights in it. He never has altered from the disposition to accomplish it."
Jonathan Edwards, Altogether Lovely, (Morgan, PA: Soli Deo Gloria, 1997), 119.