Where is the hope?
Bruce Macek | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years, 2 months AGO
In a recent Associated Press article dated Nov. 2, 2016, in the Coeur d’Alene Press, the writer’s comments on this year’s presidential campaign summed up the feelings of many of us when they wrote,” As the caustic presidential race lurches toward the finish line, each candidate is aggressively casting the other as a catastrophic choice for the White House ... It’s an ugly conclusion to a contest featuring two of the most unpopular presidential candidates in modern American politics.”
In addition to this campaign being caustic and ugly it’s very emotional and divisive for us voters. It doesn’t take long for neighbors to build a wall in the middle of the street further polarizing each other. Is there any hope for this or any other political season? Yes, there is.
Our hope as a nation does not rest in any given political party or candidate to solve all our problems with greed, corruption, injustices or any of a long list of abuses, our hope lies in the hearts of each of us who has the humility and courage to acknowledge our failures before God and each other asking to be forgiven and turning to and following the example Jesus gave us through his life. Please, read any of the Gospels. Is there any hope in this political season? Yup, it’s in faith in God, not in ourselves.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on our own understandings. In all our ways acknowledge Him and He will direct our paths. Proverbs 3:5-6.
Bruce Macek is pastor at Newman Community Bible Church, 9230 Sagle Road, Sagle.
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