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The Day After Election Day

             This is also why you pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, who give their full time to governing. (Romans 13:6)

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. (Matthew 5:44-45)

Now I will give all your countries into the hands of my servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon; I will make even the wild animals subject to him. (Jeremiah 27:6)

So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.  (Matthew 712)

The election is all over but the shouting (and hopefully nothing more than shouting) and at some point in the next month or so, it will be confirmed who will be our next president. I’m sure you have a preference, just as I have one. They may not be the same. That doesn’t matter. If you voted, you did your civic and Christian duty. Thank you.

Others who have been talking about the election have pointed out that no matter who wins, God is still King. That’s very true, but while we may need our fears and worries calmed, we also need to school ourselves in the proper attitude to have about whoever wins. Not only is God still in control, but we have been commanded to love our enemies, which includes not only the candidate you don’t want to win, but all those who vote for that candidate.

You are to be a good loser or a good loser – treating those who disagree with you the way you want them to treat you, showing them grace. To do otherwise is sin. 

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