God Doesn’t Do Electoral Landslides? He Gives Us Exactly What We Need

Put not your trust in princes

Joseph Serwach
Koinonia
Published in
4 min readNov 6, 2020

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Both sides craved an electoral landslide: an overwhelming majority “wave’’ voting for our way, our agenda so “the other side’’ would be repudiated.

It didn’t work out that way. For four years, one side questioned the legitimacy and integrity of the other. Now the roles are reversed. Each side demonstrated very close record levels of voter support — a nation divided?

Both sides remain standing, the battles continue. Politics and government never end. They agree sometimes or may pause but mainly, they keep fighting, back and forth. Both still in the never-ending game.

“Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.’’ Psalm, 146:3–10, ESV).

We are all brothers and sisters, all God’s children, and yet, we all want to win, to be redeemed and proven right. We all want the other side to surrender, admit they are wrong, and say our three favorite words: you were right.

But that rarely happens.

What if both of the candidates for the highest office in the land were your children? Both family you knew and loved? Would you be able to vote for one over the other without calling one good and one evil? Probably.

Because we all love our family, forgetting that we are all related to each other somehow, someway, all God’s children. When we love one another, praying for our enemies as well as our beloved, we don’t have to hate millions.

But when we stop thinking about God and the devil, we tend to make someone or something else (like politics or sports or work) our “new’’ false god or idol. And when we stop believing there is a devil we tend to convince ourselves that our political or personal enemies are the evil demons.

The truth is we are all beloved children of God but all sinners so good and evil dwell side-by-side within each of us. And we all have the ability to win over the good or provoke the evil within each other.

“If anyone says, ‘I love God,’ and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not…

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Joseph Serwach
Koinonia

Story + Identity = Mission. Leadership Culture, Journalism, Branding Education. Inspiration: Catholic, Polish. https://serwachjoe.medium.com/membership