There is a process by which a people group loses its privilege. First, lofty standing begins to lose its cache. Second, the once privileged become a matter of insignificance. Last, they become the untouchables. While Christians are fast on their way to being untouchables, having last election cycle been bundled together in a basket full of deplorables, we now feel the angst of our own insignificance. We don’t count much. No one especially cares what we think. Heck, we can’t even agree among ourselves over something so basic of the deity of our Redeemer.
Time was that both parties courted the evangelical vote. Now the reds take us for granted while the blues paint us as so out of touch that our thought leaders and their thought followers desperately swing left so as not to be left out of the cool kids club. Big Eva will always find a place among the elites, so long as she puts out.
All of which is a mirage painted for us by our real enemy, the Serpent. The truth is that every member of the power elite rules at the King’s pleasure. They, like Pharaoh before them, are so many puppets set up so that our Hero can knock them down (Exodus 9: 16, 17). The purpose of this faux show is two-fold- our well being and His glory. The devil wants us to believe that we are spinning in circles in the swirling eddies of the backest of backwaters while he is the center of the universe, and the power brokers are his satellites. The truth is that we are the center of the story, because He is the center of the story, and we are one with Him. We are the bride of the Star of the show.
The show in turn has two grand plots that He weaves together. One is the story of our Hero brandishing His iron rod and breaking the knees of every ruler that will not bow before Him (Psalm 2). The other is story of Him pulling us out of the gutter like Gomer, and washing away every blot and blemish through the Word (Ephesians 5). The devil and his minions, both human and demonic are props. The daily events covered by the news are but a painted backdrop.
This means you. If they think little of you where you work, if the town council thinks you a harmless crank, if your unbelieving family and neighbors feel pity for you, it matters not. The Maker of Heaven and Earth made heaven and earth, and you so that He might glorify His Son in rescuing you, whom He has loved by name from before time. He rejoices every time you draw near Him in prayer. He is preparing eternal blessings to shower on you.
And He blesses you now, by taking from you, and from me, and from all that call upon His name, the pathetic privileges that pour from power. For our good and for His glory. Jesus, and His beloved, always win.