Here are a couple of thoughts specifically for my friends who are followers of Jesus (and live in the U.S.).
I love our country. I pray for our country. I want what’s best for our country. I pray for healing and unity in our country. I trust you do, too.
But as I have thought and prayed about the events in Washington D.C. today, I keep thinking about Jesus saying, “My kingdom is not of this world…” John 18:36
I want to stress it is my sincere desire that our country would thrive and be a place of fairness, goodness, liberty, peace, justice and opportunity, however, for followers of Jesus remember that we are citizens of another kingdom. Our ultimate hope is not in the United States.
Again, I love the United States. Please know, I am eager for it to flourish in a way that is beneficial for all. This is not a call to give up on our country. But our ultimate hope is not the United States. And it is certainly not in a political party.
Our ultimate hope is in Christ Jesus.
“…[T]he glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Colossians 1:27
If you consider yourself to be a Christian and you look to the United States as your ultimate source of hope, then—respectfully and lovingly—you do not correctly understand what it means to be a Christian.
My dear brothers and sisters, let us be the ones who contribute to what is right, not what is wrong. Light is needed these days, let’s be agents of light.
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