Right in Candidate

Bible Text Revelation 3:19-20 [paraphrased]  Jesus said: “I’m only tough with those I love.  Take My discipline seriously and turn from your wrong choices.  Here I stand, knocking on your door.  Hear Me calling.  Open the door, and I’ll come right in.  Let’s sit down to supper and talk things over.” 

 

We Americans need a right in candidate.  “Hold on,” you’re probably thinking, “don’t you mean a write in candidate?” “No!” We need a right in candidate, and His name is Jesus Christ.  He sees the wrong choices we are making, on various sides of today’s issues.  None of us is entirely innocent.  We each have contributed to the bad moral choices of our nation.  All along, Jesus has been rapping loudly on our doors, but we can’t hear Him above the racket of our blaming and shaming anyone who disagrees with us.  We all need to get serious about Jesus’ warning.  

What would happen if we each repented of our nation’s immorality and our own personal contribution to it? Jesus would come right in!  Right in-to our hearts and right in-to the heartbeat of America. 

Prayer: Dear Jesus, I’m starting to get it.  You are offering to come right into our lives, to sit right down at our kitchen tables, to enter right into our conversations, and to help us discover what You would have us do.  Not until we allow You right in, can things turn out right.

By Pastor Phil Bickel