When You Can’t Trust the People in Charge, Where Do You Turn?

By Pastor Adama Segbedji | Solution Chapel International

Millions of people voted across the UK today. England, Scotland, Wales — queues outside polling stations, that familiar ritual of democracy playing out in drizzle and quiet resignation. And if you talked honestly to most people walking out, what you’d hear isn’t excitement. It’s exhaustion. A low, steady kind of weariness that says — does any of this actually change anything?

I’ve heard that feeling more times than I can count. People who used to be passionate about politics, now barely engaged. Not because they’ve stopped caring about the country. But because something in them has quietly given up on the idea that the right person in the right office will finally sort things out. The disillusionment is real. And it deserves to be taken seriously rather than dismissed with another campaign slogan.

Here’s what I’ve come to understand though. That hollow ache — the one that surfaces every time a leader lets you down, every time a promise dissolves into headlines — that ache is pointing somewhere. Not toward cynicism. Toward something far older and far more solid than any political party has ever managed to be.

Psalm 146:3 has been sitting with me all day. “Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.” Written thousands of years ago about a completely different world, and yet it reads like this morning’s news. Not as a reason to disengage from society or stop caring about justice — but as a reality check that cuts right through the noise. Human leaders fail. They always have. They were never built to carry the weight we keep placing on them.

So the real question isn’t whether politics disappoints. It will. The question is what you anchor yourself to when it does.

If you are at that point — tired of looking to systems that keep letting you down, quietly wondering whether there is anything or anyone actually worth trusting — we would genuinely love to have you with us at Solution Chapel International. Come and see what it looks like when people build their lives on something that doesn’t change with the polls. We meet every Sunday at 10 New Street, Three Bridges, Crawley, RH10 1LW. You can find out more at www.solutionchapel.org.

Jesus said something in John 14:27 that no politician has ever been able to say honestly: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.” That is not a manifesto promise. It doesn’t expire after five years. It doesn’t collapse when the majority shifts. It holds — regardless of what the results say in the morning.

Whatever you voted today, wherever you land politically — that peace is available to you right now. Today. Not when things settle down. Now.

Has today’s result left you feeling hopeful, or more of the same? Drop a comment below — and if this spoke to something you’ve been feeling, share it with someone who needs to read it. You might be surprised how many people around you are asking the same questions.

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