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Last night, feeling incredibly discouraged, I FaceTimed my mom around midnight.
She was watching the election results come in. But unlike me, she was smiling. Joyful, even.
My first question was, “What do we do now?”
Without hesitation, she responded:
“What do you mean? We keep doing what we’ve always been doing. We survived communism before. We will survive it together again.”
This morning, I woke up still feeling discouraged. But not dismayed. The sun was shining, and I found myself reflecting on what it really means that God works all things together for good.
I think, if we’re honest with ourselves, most of us would prefer to believe we’re living in the redemptive arc of human history. That things are inevitably moving toward greater freedom, greater truth, and greater goodness.
But what if we’re not? What if the world our children inherit is less free than the one we inherited? Does that mean God has stopped working all things together for good?
Of course not. God’s promises have never depended on the direction of human history.
I frequently tell young people navigating dating in the post-2020 world that they’ve been given an extraordinary opportunity to discern character. Those years revealed who possessed courage, who valued truth over acceptance, and who would abandon their convictions the moment they became a little costly.
We are witnessing another such moment.
We live in a time when people, organizations, and institutions openly celebrate socialism, embrace anti-American ideology, undermine the biblical family, and defend the murder of life.
And as discouraging as that is, these moments reveal who people actually are.
They expose the difference between conviction and convenience. Between biblical fidelity and cultural accommodation. Between those who profess Christ and those actually willing to bear the cost of following Him.
Perhaps we are not living in the redemptive arc of human history.
But we have the extraordinary privilege of living every single day in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ.
I don’t know exactly what these election results mean for our country’s future. But I do know that progressive ideology continues to make inroads into the evangelical bloc, which has historically been one of the strongest defenders of biblical values.
So then, today is a call for a response.
Raise your children in the instruction of the Lord. Stop funding educational institutions that undermine the very convictions you’re trying to instill in them. Find a church that boldly and unapologetically proclaims biblical truth.
Teach your children history. Teach them Scripture. Teach them to recognize evil even when it disguises itself as compassion, progress, or justice.
Reject the lie that trusting God’s sovereignty means surrendering our responsibility. Christian hope is not an excuse for Christian complacency.
We are not promised a comfortable life, a prosperous nation, or a culture that celebrates our convictions.
We are called to faithfulness.
And until Christ returns, we have work to do.
My mother knows something about this that many Americans have never had to learn. She lived under communism. She knows what it means to follow Christ when the surrounding culture is hostile to everything you believe.
And yet, last night, she was smiling.
Not because the election results gave her hope.
But because her hope was never in the election results to begin with.
So today, I am not dismayed.
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.” Romans 8:18