Opinion here of course....opinion in this whole post. Ben Sasse was probably.....from a Christian perspective.....the best United States Senator that we have had in multiple decades if not a hundred years. I was one unhappy camper when he decided to leave the Senate to take the position of President of the University of Florida. Sasse was raised in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod....and is Reformed Presbyterianism today....so he has his entire life been firmly in....as we say....the Reformation.
That is one of his great strengths....for in none of the other....even wonderful Christian persuasions....is the sovereignty of God so marvelously preached and taught and proclaimed! But as in all persuasions or theologies or denominations....however you would choose to state it....there are also weaknesses....for none of them are perfect. I would tell you my theological weaknesses but by the very nature of the problem....I do not know them.
Ultimately....everything that is not clearly codified in God's Word is subject to interpretation. Fortunately there is a lot that is clearly codified...or perspicuous....as Reformation scholar and preacher/teacher R. C. Sproul liked to say!
Ben Sasse announced that he has fourth stage pancreatic cancer and is...."going to die." This much is sure....whatever he says in the time that God will give him....will be based solidly from God's Word.
When Ben Sasse moved on to the University of Florida.....he was exchanging for the longer range plans of changing the higher education system in America....this from the more pressing survivalist plans of a United States Senator that knows very well the existential dangers America is in right now. This is what I wasn't thrilled with....for we needed him in the Senate.
I have on occasion over the decades....had the opportunity to stand by the hospital or home bedside of a dying Christian man....and in every case....what was certain in that man....was that they were shortly going to see the glory....and stand in the majesty of a Holy God! That was a great and confident hope in those men....and that will be the case will Ben Sasse....but there is one thing that I would tell him....in that weird method of stating things that I apparently have incorporated in my later years.....I would say...."Ben"....probably...."Mr. Sasse" or 'Senator Sasse"....."Jesus may return before you go to Him....and if not....look up....for He is surely on His way....and may be in view right now!"
Title: Luke 21:28 KJV....from the Olivet Discourse
