CAL THOMAS COMMENTARY JANUARY 15, 2024
REPUBLICANS ARE CAUCUSING TONIGHT IN IOWA. HAVE YOU NOTICED? HOW COULD YOU NOT? IT’S BEEN ALL OVER THE CABLE NETWORKS. THE LORD’S SECOND COMING MAY NOT GET AS MUCH ATTENTION FROM THE MEDIA.
POLITICS IS BEING TREATED AS A FALSE GOD AND PROMOTED AS THE ONLY ANSWER TO THE PROBLEMS THAT CONFRONT US. IN FACT, IT APPEARS POLITICS IS PART OF THE PROBLEM, OR IT MAY BE THE PROBLEM. “PUT NOT YOUR TRUST IN PRINCES,” WROTE KING DAVID, “OR IN MORTAL MAN, IN WHOM THERE IS NO SALVATION. WHEN HIS SPIRIT DEPARTS HE RETURNS TO THE EARTH; IN THAT VERY DAY HIS THOUGHTS PERISH.”
THESE WORDS FROM PSALM 146 SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. IF MORTAL MAN HAD THE POWER TO RIGHT EVERY, OR EVEN MOST WRONGS, WOULD HE NOT HAVE DONE SO BY NOW?
OUR PROBLEM IS WE ARE SINNERS AND NEED SALVATION. HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A POLITICIAN SAY THAT? PROBABLY NOT BECAUSE THEY WANT VOTERS TO PUT THEIR FAITH – AND CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS – IN THEM. YES, VOTE. YES, PRAY FOR THOSE IN AUTHORITY. BUT PUT YOUR FAITH WHERE IT CAN PRODUCE RESULTS. YOU KNOW WHERE THAT IS, DON’T YOU? I’M CAL THOMAS.
