Here is one thing God is doing. It may just be the most important thing of all. He is saving people. He was saving people yesterday and He’s back at it today.
First and foremost, God is saving people. He has suspended His judgment. He has spent His wrath against sin on His son on the cross.
For Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2, “As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For He says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.”
God is currently favorable towards people. God is currently willing to overlook people’s sins. It is not God’s desire for anyone to perish but for all to come to repentance through Christ (2 Peter 3:9). How beautiful are the feet of those who carry the gospel of peace (Isaiah 52:7). That’s you. That’s your feet. Not stinky, funny looking things, but beautiful feet because of what they bring to the world – wherever they go – the gospel of peace. Beautiful.
Will you do that? Will you do that today? Will you suspend judgment, set aside your righteous anger over sin, overlook what everyone is doing wrong and bring them the gospel of peace – the gospel of welcome? If you can do this, then you will know what God is doing. You will know it so well that you will be a part of it.
I have a strong feeling, based on what a lot of Christians were saying before this election, that there are a lot of angry Christians this morning. I have this to say about that: Get over it. God did. God got over his anger so that He could save. God is favorable right now towards everyone. This is a glorious day! Announce it! Shout it from the rooftops! Get those beautiful feet out there into this desperate world with the best news in two thousand years: God isn’t mad anymore (2 Corinthians 5:18-20). God has extended His grace to everyone. He doesn’t want anyone to perish in their sins so He took care of them on the cross. This is the acceptable day of the Lord. This is the time for the Gospel of Welcome.
You know, this gospel was the big deal yesterday before anyone voted on anything. It’s still the big deal today. There’s one more day to save. Every day God waits is another day to spread around the gospel of peace. Don’t receive God’s grace in vain: share it with someone else.
John Fischer The Catch 
good words, John…. ,r
Dear Pastor John I would like to say, I am a bit disappointed in your sincere lack of empathy and any good use of people skills, not that I have a ton of them either, yet I know so much better to ever “say” something as callous and un-empathically as this: “Get over it.” to them: “there are a lot of angry Christians this morning. I have this to say about that: …” Why can’t you let them, as I’m sure our Lord does let them have their feelings? Would it be so hard to say, I’m sorry you feel that way… Yet to tell them to “Get over it” I think / believe a child in the third grad without any knowledge of any good people skills can and could easily do that, or to say that to someone else that may not be happy about the election results, which is one of the reasons I am slightly disappointed in you, Pastor John – One of the biggest lessons I have learned here @ the Catch is to let others have and express their own opinions, without putting them down or making them feel small in regards to them, yet “get over it” is something in my opinion a person tells a child, usually an adult to a child, so they don’t have to explain a situation or reasons for their feelings to them, so just get over them…
PS this may shock a lot people, especially my Biz partners that I for one am very happy w/ the election results… Yet I wouldn’t ever hardly dream of telling them, my friends who maybe Christian or not – Oh well get over it and try to use the analogy of the most high God getting over His righteous of our sins – I do tend to think / believe that is either a strawman argument or a post hoc fallacy or more simply stated shows a sincere lack of good people skills, which are and can be valuable in winning people or trying to win them for the Lord, or heaven gain…
Surely its aboundantly clear that God via His Grace has made the provision of our Salvation. Via free will individuals choose to put other gods (Government) before Him. I don’t believe His wrath (anger) is set aside for those who refuse to REPENT!
Mark, thank YOU for your words of wisdom and for allowing me to be angry. And, no, I did not vote the same as you, but you sound like a resonable thinking human being – we need more like YOU in our government.
There are things in life that need to go beyond “good people skills”; feelings; personal opinions, etc.. The Gospel is extremely serious! Sin in the World is extremely serious! The Solution, the Son of God being made sin in our place, reflects how very serious the sin problem is. We are all in need of the Solution provided by God. The horror that put Him on that cross was our sinfulness. His Grace towards us that believe is immense!