ELECTED TO SERVE

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ELECTED TO SERVE 

By Gail K. Kachnycz on 28 October 2024 

     We are indeed privileged in this country to have the opportunity to vote for those who represent us. I hope you exercised that right on election day.

     Whether you are elated or incensed with the results of the election, the officials who have been voted into office have a responsibility to serve all of their constituents, regardless of party affiliation. It is important to have contact information for elected officials, so that you can inform them of your support or concerns about upcoming legislation or other issues. Here is a link to a website that provides the contact information for every elected official in the USA, from the President right through your city mayor and local representatives. It is easy to use simply by entering your address (no name needed). By January 2025, when newly elected officials are sworn in, the website should be complete with all the updated information.

My Reps Website

     Last week, the post highlighted the PA MEDI program, for help during Medicare Open Enrollment (10/15/24-12/7/24). Since Medicare is a federal program, it is important to know that if you are having difficulties with Medicare services, your Federal Congressman/woman is the office that can help you. Your US Representative should have a person designated as the “Medicare Liaison.” You can use the link above to identify your Representative and contact information.

     Let me close with a few verses that address our attitude toward government officials. 

Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God. Romans 13:1 NKJV 

Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do good. For this is the will of God, that by doing good you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men—as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God. Honor all people. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honor the king. 1 Peter 2:13-17 NKJV 

The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes. Proverbs 21:1 NKJV

Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4 NKJV 

     As Paul states in 1 Timothy, the ultimate goal is “for all men to be saved and to come the the knowledge of the truth.” God’s purposes in this world cannot be thwarted, regardless of who is wielding earthly authority. With that in mind, I leave you with Paul’s prayer for the church in Ephesus:

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. Ephesians 1:15-20 NKJV (emphasis added)