The first miracle at Cana of Galilee

Right now they are having a run-off election in Brazil between two candidates, Lula and Bolsonaro. It would be similar to Democrat (Lula) vs. Republican (Bolsonaro) here in the United States, except for the following tidbit:

In July 2017, Lula was convicted on charges of money laundering and corruption in a controversial trial, and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The federal judge of the case, Sergio Moro, later became Minister of Justice and Public Security in Jair Bolsonaro's government.

Later in 2022, Bolsonaro is the president and Lula is the main contender and expected to win the election.  You might wonder why a convicted felon would be more popular than his adversary in a country that is notorious for corrupt politicians and accepting bribes, but that is really no surprise to me.

We don't have any miraculous powers to do anything but use our words to try and convince others.  Lula has a lot of funding behind him from other socialists and socialist governments. Money has always been humanity's form of miraculous power. Or as someone else put it, "he who has the gold makes the rules". 

What is interesting to me is how Jesus came to this world with all the power available to him to rule it forever.  He turned water into wine, displaying His power to His disciples. After Jesus had turned water into wine, John the Apostle gives the following summary:

John 2:11 ESV

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

If Jesus had decided to run for election, He would have been the ultimate conservative ruler and would have put things right. He could have lived forever as a the greatest ruler the world has ever know. Instead, he chose to die for our sins.

To him, our eternal well-being was more important than our temporary well being.  Let us stop worrying about who is elected and how our financial and religious freedoms are going to be and, like Jesus, turn our concern to the eternal things.  I am not saying that we should ignore the temporary things, just realize that things going like we think they should was never a part of God's plan.  God's plan for this world is summed up in the second Epistle of Peter: 

2 Peter 3:3-7 ESV

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, and that by means of these the world that then existed was deluged with water and perished. But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.