On the radio …

I was so jazzed about Easter!

Really, I was looking forward to celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Yesterday I spent some time in the Word, but even more in prayer and additional time journaling, just contemplating the amazing love, grace and power of the God we serve who completely obliterated death that first Easter long ago. How awesome was that?!

So anyway, I’m on my way home from church, looking forward to “Easter dinner” with family and just enjoying the afterglow of Easter service, when I switched on the car radio and hit the button storing the memory for the local Christian station. I thought I would prolong my Easter worship with some Christian radio broadcasting. It’s Easter morning, so I anticipated something “Easter-ish” … maybe a sermon, or some awesome worship songs … something highlighting the incredible event of Christ’s resurrection.

But guess what the topic was on Christian radio on Easter Sunday morning … politics!

Sadly, that is happening more and more these days. We want to tune into something that further feeds our faith, and we get “Christian broadcasting” railing about current events and current leaders. Instead of something that feeds the soul, it’s someone frothing at the mouth about world leaders.

Here’s the problem with that: no human being, no government, no nation or election is the hope of humankind for this world we live in. The hope of the world is Jesus Christ alone!

I’ve followed politics since I was a teenager. I’m politically interested, informed, and active. But politics is not the Savior, Jesus is. Sadly, the trend in this country is to spend more time talking about the latest election or leader and less time talking about the real answer to life’s issues: a saving relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let me ask you, do you talk about Jesus Christ as much as you talk about the current events of our day? Do you bring up Jesus as often as you mention your opinion about our current President?

Leaders, governments, and even nations will rise and fall, but the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ lasts forever! God calls us to something more than issues of our day, and He wants us to redirect our attention to that which matters eternally. The Apostle Paul wrote this to the Corinthians, “… though our bodies are dying, our spirits are being renewed every day. For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever” (2 Corinthians 4:16b-18).

Of course we should be responsible citizens. But if you really want to impact this world, share the good news of Jesus Christ with someone. Help someone find the means to change from the inside out by introducing them to Jesus Christ and you will truly help bring about a transformation.

Scotty