By David Kubal

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Recently, I was talking to a young adult about political matters. In the course of our conversation, I asked him what he thought about this year’s elections and whether he had any specific views on the presidential candidates. He answered, “I really don’t care, as long as they don’t impact me.” After I recovered from the shock of that shortsighted response, I considered how I might convince him to think beyond himself. I asked, “What do you think God thinks about (and I named a particular issue)?” He didn’t have any response; it appeared to be a new thought to him — that God, if He even existed, would have the slightest concern about U.S. government.

To take this question a step further, what do American Christians believe about God’s viewpoint in such matters? It appears that we live in a day that many evangelical churches no longer stress the necessity for biblical authority. The result is that large numbers of believers need to be awakened to the fact that personal opinions must yield to God’s viewpoint on integrity in government. How many have heard a sermon on God’s declaration, “Woe to those who make unjust laws…” (Isa. 10:1 NIV)? This distance in believers’ minds between God and government is a great chasm, but this is a modern development. Our Founding Fathers believed that God defines laws, and it is the government’s responsibility to enforce those laws, thus making government a divine extension of His will.

As we pray for the elections later this year, let us pray that the Church would consider the importance of government in God’s design of creation. Let us pray for a reawakening to the fact that men do not create laws, we are simply given the opportunity to legislate what God has already defined. Yes, God does care about government.