He said to them, “Then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.”
This is an interesting passage to come up next in my study
on the morning after the election of 2012.
The words of Jesus, “render to Caesar the things that
are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's,” ring for today. In truth, we the church had great hope for a
turn in this election away from the control of humanism in the government of
the United States and a return to the godly principles upon which our nation
was founded. Our collective
disappointment should be a wakeup call to shake us from the notion that this
vile world could ever be “a friend to grace to bring us on to God.”
I see in the events of the past two weeks the true and
deliberate hand of God. God’s judgment
is surely falling, but it is not yet falling on the world. God is judging His people. When our Lord spoke the words recorded in
Luke, Tiberius Caesar and Rome ruled the world.
The Jews were looking for a political and economic Deliverer, but they
rejected the King of Kings because He came to deliver their souls from sin not
their society from oppression and foreign domination.
It is imperative that the children of God in America, the
church of the redeemed, realize how far we have gone into acceptance of and dependence
on the world and its systems. It seems
to me that our churches, our programs, our efforts individually and
collectively are all focused on the material, the coin of Caesar, and the call
of the Spirit of God is absent from our work and silenced in our hearts.
