God's Vice President

God has no vice president. He doesn't need to find just the right one to make up for His perceived weaknesses or vulnerabilities. He doesn't need ensure that His number two is vetted and media tested. He has no need for a vice president, since no assassin can begin to imagine harming Him in any way. In a world of imperfection, where the writer of Ecclesiastes is right to say that we despise wisdom even after benefitting from it (9:13-18), it is good to know that there is One who needs no support or vote of confidence. Much talk about mixing politics and religion has been inspired by Rick Warren's TV show featuring both Presidential candidates. It is interesting. Still, it's reassuring to look up and see no changes in Heaven. There are no debates in God's courts. There are no contenders for His position. Whatever answers He gives to whatever questions we have are so right that they must be recorded forever as absolute truth. God asks no one for permission to be God. God has no term limits. He never needs to see how things "play in Peoria." He never needs a spin doctor, even though this is exactly what some who operate in His Name seem to act like. He doesn't need secret service agents or a bullet proof car. He doesn't need, period. 

God doesn't need a vice president, but, if you spend enough time in His Word, it almost feels like He's looking for one anyway. The extent to which He wants to operate with and through forgiven believers is astounding, don't you think? Do you ever wonder why He straps His agenda and glory to the exploits of the kind of people we see roaming around our churches, the kind of people we are? Just look at His choice of apostles. Who were these guys? Jesus did the opposite of what we see our nation doing in the presidential race. Did He choose only those who failed a background check? And then the authority and position He gave to them was downright frightening. He seems to have done more than make each one vice president. He said in John 14:12: "I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these ..." Wow.