“For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens
are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts
than your thoughts. “ Isaiah 55:8
I was shocked.
Stunned. NO WAY could America
have elected Obama AGAIN! NO! WAY! And how will we survive four more years? What will become of this country??
Since then I have had a little time to mull it all over. And I have talked to other well-informed
Christians who are not depressed about it all.
And I have questioned why.
What am I putting my faith in?
Was I putting my faith in Mitt Romney, that he could undo
the damage that I perceive Barack Obama has done and thus save our
country?
Or was it in the Republican party? Even though I wasn’t thrilled with Romney as
a choice, I was sure that any Republican could do a better job than Obama! After all, Republicans know what’s right.
Maybe it was in the American people. I can sort of see the logic people had in
electing Obama four years ago. They were
ready for change, and he promised to bring it.
They were willing to give him a chance.
And indeed he has brought change, but it has all been negative, in my
opinion. We’re much further in debt, prices
are rising, and the future of our healthcare is at stake. Socialism threatens to rob us of our freedom. I believed the American people would see all
that and make the logical choice: to remove Obama from office before he does
any more damage. Just vote him out, like
they have done with bad presidents in the past.
Guess what? All of
these people have failed me in what I thought they should do.
So what do I have left?
Oh yeah. God. The One who never fails. The One who others I know are putting their
hope in, those people who have remarkable peace about all of this.
I didn’t forget Him altogether. I did pray daily about this election for
months, believing that He would answer my prayer by putting a good Republican
in office, and that would be His means of saving our country. Of course.
It was logical.
But my way of thinking is not always God’s way of thinking. I don’t know what His way of thinking
is. I don’t know how He can be using all
of this to work all things together “for the good of those who
love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (Romans 8:28). But He is.
He may be using this to discipline us as a country. Can anybody claim we don’t need or deserve that? Or He may be using it to protect us from
something worse that we may never even know about. Maybe it is to teach us or bring us to
revival. Or maybe all of the above.
Thankfully, God IS in control. Thankfully He has a plan. But He does give us a role: “If
my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray
and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven,
and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” II Chronicles 7:14.
Our vote has been cast.
And if you’re like me, you didn’t win.
Thank goodness God is in control.
Let’s bow before Him and plead with Him to heal our broken land.
