Tuesday and it’s the first day of the final month of 2020. I’d like to think we’ve almost survived the worst year ever, but then I saw this meme:

The truth is that none of us know for sure what’s coming over the next wave hill. We can make educated guesses, even pretty good ones, but I’m not aware of anyone who is truly prophetic. Just look at the presidential election polls in 2016 and 2020. Or look at the weather. I mean, the last time there was an accurate forecast was when God told Noah it was going to rain for forty days and forty nights.

Being in the dark about what tomorrow holds is, of course, consistent with scripture.

So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Matthew 6:31-34

The key to this passage is verse 33, which admonishes us to be preoccupied with searching out God’s kingdom and righteousness instead of with our needs. As The Message puts it, “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.”

It is a certifiable fact that the Democrat party is a garbage party. They are liars and schemers and cheaters and fraudsters who hate America. But guess what? We’re not to be preoccupied with them, but with what God is up to in our lives and in the world around us. I admit that keeping the Democrat party, their garbage agenda and the fraudulent election from elevating itself over my preoccupation with God is a challenge for me.

I do worry about what the Democrats will do if they end up taking the White House in 2021. I expect to grieve the reversal of Trump’s progress with our economy, job growth, tax breaks, pro-life and religious protections, exposing the Deep State, strengthening peace in the Middle East and bringing optimism back to the country.

Fortunately, evidence is piling up that undercuts Biden’s claim to the presidency.

But my overriding concern is to be God’s kingdom. “We live by faith, not by sight,” says Paul. That means that as we walk through our daily lives, we take life as it comes at us, without fear or worry, but on ministering to those around us. That’s how Jesus modeled his life. He walked the streets and ministered to whoever crossed his path as he went along. He was obviously unconcerned about the Roman occupation or about Herod, whom he called a “fox” (an unclean animal in Israel’s holiness codes).

Instead, he was about his Father’s business.

“Very truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” John 5:19

“I did not speak on my own, but the Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken.”  John 12:49

I want my life to reflect that of Christ, to be in tune with what the Father is doing and saying. That is more important than what the election results will be.

Yet I continue to pay attention to them, so that I may be clever as a snake and innocent as a dove (Matthew 10:16) as I walk through life day by day. My singular purpose is to be as Christ to those I meet in the midst of ever-changing and ever-raging circumstances.

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