Your Governor

Who is your governor, your leader? Who will it be after the coming elections? Who will you be trusting to look out for your well being? Obama? McCain? None of the above? Someone else?

Through the prophet Isaiah, God told Israel (and us): "I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler." Perhaps God was referring the coming of the Prince of Peace-of whom Isaiah says, "the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."

Abraham, by faith, made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country for he was looking forward to the city whose architect and builder is God. He admitted that he was an alien and stranger here on earth.

He walked by faith and he looked forward to a better country, not the one he came from. I'm sure he loved the promised land, but where was his attention focused? At the ground he walked on? On the land where he set up his tent?

His attention was focused and his faith was based in the peace and righteousness of God. All his trust was in Him who called him, not in princes and earthly rulers and the political events of the time.