A bit of help for those worried about the election.

October 21st, 2024.

If you have a few brain cells and the pulse, it is quite possible that you've had a few worries

about the upcoming presidential election. Not only that, but it is also possible that your wife is worried about it also, not to mention some of your older teens.

So I thought it might be helpful to folks in your position to outline a few principles and offer a few

exhortations about the election. There is a way to stay anxiety free in such a time as ours, and to do so without

adopting a stoic apathy or a cynical, what difference does it make pose? How can we stay free of worry,

like Christians?

One, as we look at the cavalcade of nonsense that is comprised of all our political

monkey shines, it is easy to forget the fact that God is sovereign. His sovereignty is exhaustive and there is not one

atom in this cosmos that operates outside the realm of that sovereignty. But if God is sovereign

over all things, then he is certainly sovereign over this thing. We sometimes make the mistake of thinking

that because God is altogether holy, his sovereignty only extends over the serious things,

things like worship or cancer diagnoses or systematic theology. But although it is true or King of Fars, down to the oversized clown shoes.

The God of 2024, clowns in all, is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Two, certain things follow from his sovereignty.

His sovereignty means that he has the authority to tell us not to be anxious, which he does in fact do.

He does tell us that. The scriptures plainly tell us that worry is out.

Peter tells us not to be anxious for anything because God cares for us.

1 Peter 5.7.

And the Lord told us that each day has enough troubles,

and so we shouldn't borrow additional difficulties from the future,

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