Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Isaiah 40:1
A new president of our nation was inaugurated yesterday, and we are allowed to feel either elated or dismayed. We are even allowed to feel ambivalent. As we gather around the Word of God this morning, I feel the calling to speak comfort to those who feel dismayed.
The President of the United States of America is a powerful position capable of affecting the lives of billions around the world. However, our Lord says this about Himself:
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:8.
The title of The Almighty occurs many times in the Bible, but that one from the start of the Revelation seems to explain it so well. The second part also addresses the continuity of the Lord. We inaugurated the 46th president in just short of 250 years as a nation. The Lord is the Beginning and the End, and we have no idea how long that is but it is already way more than a mere 250 years.
Sure, the president is important, but we comfort each other with our Lord. And He did not leave His throne yesterday, in spite of what it may feel like to some this morning.
In the love of Christ Jesus,
Bucky
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