I believe, and expect every believer to believe, that God will appoint His chosen person to serve as the next President of the United States. He will, of course, work through means, which is typically through our voting process. That said, the winner has already been chosen. God has revealed to me, and to so many others, that nothing will stop the election and inauguration of the one person He has chosen. He has revealed to me that the winner will win by just one single vote. Yet it will still be a landslide. He is hearing the prayers of His people.
What I don’t know is whether that person will be a man or a woman, a Republican or a Democrat, or neither. I don’t know if it will be Vice President Harris or former President Trump, or some other person. I, like most of you, in a few weeks will watch the results pour in. I, like most of you, will hope it will be the one I hope it will be. Whether I know who was elected before I go to bed or not, whomever is elected, I will sleep well. I will praise the just Judge of all the earth, who always does right.
I’d argue that God Himself would sleep well that night, but He neither slumbers nor sleeps. He does put leaders in positions of leadership. Sometimes those leaders make life easier and happier for His people. Other times those leaders hunt down and murder His people. No times are those leaders doing anything other than that which gives God glory, and which blesses His people.
Suppose, for the sake of this thought experiment, that Donald Trump were all we might hope he would be. He would be vigorously pro-life. He would seek to not just drain the swamp but shrink it to almost nothing. He would understand justice, and apply it perfectly. Now suppose that Kamala Harris were everything we fear she’d be. A full blown unapologetic Marxist hell bent on destroying the economy, the country and the world.
Now suppose Vice President Harris wins the election and is installed come January. Here are some truths we would know for certain:
1. Jesus still reigns over all things.
2. God is glorified by the election.
3. God’s people are secure in His love and care.
4. Bad things will happen.
5. God’s people will be blessed.
6. We are called to walk in joy and confidence.
We need to remember, in short, two truths that may feel like they are in tension, but are not. First, God is in control. Second, that doesn’t mean things will go as we’d like them to. His plan may involve the legally innocent continuing to die under the full protection of the law. It may involve soldiers dying in senseless foreign wars. It may involve poverty, crime waves, persecution of believers, the collapse of the American empire. It may involve government sponsored assassinations, government directed hurricanes. It may involve mass treason.
Whether these things happen is all determined by God’s plan. Our calling is to submit to His Word, His revealed will and to walk by faith. We not only don’t have to control the future, we need not worry about it. Pray, yes. Repent, yes. Be faithful, yes. Remember that the Lord reigns? Most certainly.
