Preaching on this text this morning. In the turmoil and unpredictability of our times, we have to find what T S Eliot called "the still point of the turning world..."
For me that's my faith - "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever..." (Hebrews 13. 8)
With such faith comes the call to follow in the way of Christ, which must often mean a call to contradict the assumed life-goals, even idols, of our culture.
The drive to possess money and stuff, the lust for power without responsibility, the assumption that my self-interest has priority over the common good, the pride of thinking of others as less deserving, less entitled, and therefore of less value than me, I myself.
And yes, most of these are in blatant and naked view in the moral morass of current politics.
Just to be clear. When Christians say "Jesus is Lord", we are not celebrating love of power, but the power of love to redeem, transform and renew that which is lost, broken and hopeless.
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