What Our Nation Needs Now
By Matt Yamamoto, Director of High School Ministry
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.” (1 Peter 5:6-7)
We finally know who will be president in 2021. The last time I wrote the devotional, I was writing not sure of who the president was going to be. It took some time, but we finally got there. In that devotional, I challenged us to be examples of peace during these stormy times, and I am here to challenge us again.
Our nation has never been in the hands of a single man, even our Commander-in-Chief. It has always been in the hands of our true Commander Supreme––God, who’s our Creator, Father, and Savior.
Our money and our government buildings are emblazoned with the words, “In God We Trust.” To me, this is what distinguished us. We once recognized that the true pecking order of our nation was God first, then the president. It was the humility to acknowledge that we were blessed because of God. Ultimately it was not the work of our hands or the words we spoke that brought us to our place in the world, but it was God.
Please be assured this is not a call to arms to have the Bible put back in public schools or placed under hands in the courtroom. What I am challenging each of us individually and all of us corporately is to search our souls and ask ourselves, “In whom or what are we putting our trust?”
Do I put my trust in the president of the country? Do I put my trust in my 401K? Do I put my trust in myself? If the answer is anything other than God, then I would implore you to take some time to dig down as to why that is. And when you get to the center of it all, do as 2 Peter 5:6-7 says: “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
What our nation needs now more than ever is unity. It will not happen between people who identify themselves by political party or nationhood, but by our allegiance to Jesus. As the church we can be “the light of the world,” and the “city on the hill that cannot be hid” (Matthew 5:14) that God is asking us to be in this trying, political, social, economic, and epidemiological storm.
Prayer: Dear loving Father, we need you now more than ever. Forgive us for putting our faith in anything but You. Help us to be your people, showing the world that peace and unity are possible. Please bless the Fresh Wind Prayer Walk this Saturday, and let it be an exercise in our trust in You and unity within our church. Amen.
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