The elections tomorrow are anybody's guess.  No matter how they turn out, someone will have predicted it accurately and will smugly blog about it ad nauseum.  Regardless of the outcome, American Christians have a challenge set before them.

For decades we (Christians) have looked to the legislature to do our (i.e. God's) bidding for us.  In a sense, our faith and confidence has been in the US Congress, not God.  I'm not advocating political passivity, but it's high time we placed politics in its proper place--below our faith in God.

If the Democrats win one or both houses, how will that affect our faith?  If the Republicans keep one or both houses, how will that affect our faith?  Certainly, there are devoted Christians on both sides of the political spectrum praying fervently for victory tomorrow.

In Joshua, on the eve of Israel's battle with Jericho, the Lord met with Joshua.  Joshua queried whose side the Lord was on in the battle.  The Lord's reply?  "NO. I'm the Captain of the Lord's host."  In short, God was saying that He didn't care about our earthly squabbles.  Jesus told us that His kingdom is not of this world.

So, what is our challenge?  Namely, to get our eyes off the petty wranglings of man and on God.  Republicans and Democrats are generally two sides of the same filthy coin, so it may not make as much of a difference as we'd like to argue who wins tomorrow.  We survived eight Clinton years, didn't we?  Our challenge is to get busy building God's kingdom, which is not the United States.