With the recent elections in our land, we are right to rejoice in a bit of sanity. Many people have grown weary of living in a house of convoluted mirrors and you get the sense that conservatives have begun to unfurl banners on main streets across our land that read, “Welcome to Normal Town.” Normal Town involves a new Boarder Official who thinks that foreigners should come into our nation the legal way. A Secretary of Defense that believes women shouldn’t be running in the bayonet charge against Hamas. And a couple of aficionados of effecieny asking the members of our bloated and administrative state what it is exactly that they do around here. As Christians, we are delighted with these developments and must reject a false dichotomy that naturally arises during times like these.

That dichotomy is that on the one hand, you can rejoice in normal town while leaving off your Christian faith, or, on the other hand, you must retreat of any gratitude over our civil improvements and keep the faith once for all delivered to the saints. We, however, can do both. We can thank God for the sanity while holding fast to the Christian faith which is the soil in which that sanity grows.

But there will be dangers in doing so. Some will want to make this a Secular Normal Town and we not only reject that project outright, but we do so in a very particular way: worship.

Worship is the beating heart of our life. There is no greater tangible good you good do for yourself, your family, your town, your enemies, or your nation. You will face any number of tangles in life be they financial, relational, medical, business, educational, marital. And the worship of our Triune God is the chief untangler. Would you see your problems resolved? Would you see your land blessed? Would you see more of the kingdom of God running throughout this earth? Then offer yourselves to God now as living and holy sacrifices.