On the 22nd day of Christmas my true love gave to me a God who redeems from tragedy (Job 19:25).
Yesterday tragedy struck, at least that’s what many Democrats believe. After Election Day 2010, Republicans are now the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, leaving many folks disillusioned and resigned that their fate lies in the hands of people partial to corporations and special interests and who have no interest in helping them. Some may even want to curse God and die. Well, maybe they wouldn’t go that far, but we know that’s what Job’s wife told him to do after they lost just about EVERYTHING.
Thieves, killers and natural disasters took Job’s children, livestock and servants, and the physical pain of a body of boils compounded his deep emotional wounds. But Job didn’t curse God and die. Instead he said to his wife: “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil” (Job 2:10)? Later, pointing us to Jesus Christ, he declares:
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!—Job 19:25-27
Job knew that no matter what happened to him the One who saves him is alive and He is the One who will exist when the world ends. This is Jesus Christ, our Redeemer who lives and sees all our issues, our tragedies, and is in control of the entire earth (Romans 3:24; 1 Corinthians 15:24; 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). Yesterday, none of us lost everything. If we think we did, we definitely had our emphasis in the wrong place. Every one of our needs comes from Jesus. If He decides to use politicians He can, but He doesn’t have to. The tragedy is when we don’t elect Jesus as our Savior, and when He is our Savior, the tragedy is when we don’t elect Him to be the Lord of our lives. No human or political party can save anyone. Only the King of Kings can do that. He is our Redeemer, Savior and Supplier and no vote can change that.
Copyright 2010 by Rhonda J. Smith