How to Interpret the Restlessness of Election Season

It's presidential election season, and you've likely had your fair share of  the candidates (unless you've hidden under a rock - in which case, why would you be reading this?) With the last change of office in POTUS came an undercurrent of hope, with many swept up by the prospect of change. This election has revealed that people are still attracted to the rhetoric of change. There is a continued restlessness, though one can argue it looks different with each election.

To interpret the persistent restlessness is to first realize that people know that things are not the way they're supposed to be. And the truth is yes, they aren't, and they will never be until Christ returns and God's Kingdom is fully established. This yearning tells me that we were meant for something better (2 Corinthians 5:1-5). Second, this ought not to leave Christians apathetic about the present. We ought to care deeply about our government, as its establishment is God ordained (Romans 13:1). Third, we must live in the tension of the already but not yet - knowing that Christ is the ultimate King but as He instructed, we are to continue to bring the gospel to the ends of the earth (Matthew 28:19-20). And then the end will come (Matthew 24:14), and an inauguration I can't wait to witness.