By wisdom a house is built,
and by understanding it is established.
Proverbs 24:3
As the “after election” posts and thoughts continue I see a trend among the people of God. I see a renewed fire to be about their Father’s business. At first I thought I was seeing a little “well great, there goes the country, at least we still have heaven awaiting“.
But maybe I was being a little too critical in that assumption.
God has a way of removing the gray in our lives.
In the beginning He separated light and darkness. He then separated Israel from the rest of the nations. Then He separates the sheep and goats, the tares and the wheat, the believing and unbelieving… God is not a God of the gray.
To the gray He says…
So because you are lukewarm,
and neither hot nor cold,
I will spit you out of My mouth.
Revelation 3:16
The outcome of the election did not shock me. As the heart of our nation darkens in its understanding as it turns away from its Creator to worship the created… God is removing the gray. You simply cannot serve two masters.
No one can serve two masters;
for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or he will be devoted to one and despise the other.
You cannot serve God and wealth.
Matthew 6:24
I believe God is drawing His line straight through the heart of America. He stands before the hearts of the people of this nation and He says…
Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and truth;
and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt,
and serve the Lord.
If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord,
choose for yourselves today whom you will serve:
whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River,
or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living;
but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
Joshua 24:14-15
We have lived in an America that has had a blurred vision of what it means to be a Christian for way too long. Did we actually think that God would continue to allow the graying of the gospel of His salvation? He gave us His Law, His Word, His gospel, His Son, and His Spirit that we might know Him and those who belong to Him.
To you it was shown that you might know that the LORD, He is God;
there is no other besides Him.
Deuteronomy 4:35
We know that we are of God,
and that the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.
And we know that the Son of God has come,
and has given us understanding so that we may know Him who is true;
and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ.
This is the true God and eternal life.
1 John 5:19-20
As the people of God we have to learn the difference between gray and grace. We can’t live in the gray… but we can live in grace.
Gray is trying to ride a fence between truth and lie, between godly and worldly, between sin and righteousness, between serving God and serving ourselves. There is only room on a throne for one. If God is not on that throne then someone else is… you.
Grace is trusting in God to be there when we choose to step out of the gray and into the light.
For every house is built by someone,
but the builder of all things is God.
Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant,
for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later;
but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house—
whose house we are,
if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end.
Hebrews 3:4-6
The proverb declares that by wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established. If we are to be His house then we must grow in our wisdom and understanding and we must do that through growing in His Word and stepping out of the gray and into grace.
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
These things speak and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
Titus 2:11-15
Living in the gray makes you weak in authority and boldness… it leaves you wishy washy and swaying with every wind of man. However living in grace gives you power and strength and confidence and boldness and authority.
So let us become His house. Let us grow in wisdom and understanding. Let us hold fast to what we know. Let us step both feet in the Light and set our faces like flint to Him. Let us stop playing games at the foot of the cross. Let us step out of the gray and into His grace.
This election result is a gift from our God. Let us receive it as such.