Pray to Our Holy God for Our Divided Nation Podcast by John Stonestreet for Break Point
For weeks, each Wednesday morning, the Colson Center has hosted a time of prayer for the Church and the nation. Led by ministry partners and Christian leaders from around the country, these times have been moving and inspiring.
This past Wednesday morning, the day after an election that is still not resolved, my friend Ed Stetzer challenged us, in direct and clarifying terms, what kind of Church the world needs right now. Despite what we might feel, the political and cultural chaos that engulfs us is, Stetzer said, an opportunity to champion the Kingdom of God in this time and in this place. After all, just as the prophet Isaiah learned, no amount of political or cultural chaos upends the plans of God.
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Here’s Ed:
“I voted like an Arminian and rested like a Calvinist, because I know at the end of the day, I’ve read the end of the book, and Jesus wins.
“My original assignment from the Colson Center was to pray for the newly elected or re-elected President, and, of course, we don’t know who that will be at this point. It does remind us a bit of Isaiah Chapter 6, verse 1: ‘In the year King Uzziah died…’ Now that’s a very casual phrase that Isaiah writes, and it’s worth noting for us that the year a king dies is a very, very big deal. It makes a contested and uncertain election look like nothing. . . A just ruler can replace an unjust ruler, or an unjust ruler can replace a just ruler. Alliances that kept enemies at bay can fall apart. So in the wake of Uzziah’s death, the whole nation asked the question ‘What’s next?’
