Wednesday, November 7, 2012

The Coin of Caesar


Luke 20:15
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.

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