Well, it is Tuesday, November 4, 2008, 9:30 in the morning already here in Kherson. In a few short hours it will also be Tuesday all across America.
People will wake up.
Thousands upon thousands of people will vote.
And a new president of the United States will be elected.
For the first time in my life, for the first time in 54 years, I am frightened by a presidential election.
I have been praying, more and more each day, that God will have mercy on our country and direct the election toward McCain/Palin.
At the same time I have no confidence that God will answer in the affirmative.
I try to pray "Your will be done" - but then I end up pleading for mercy, and begging God to put off judgement on our nation a little bit longer.
And I am reminded over and over again that we, as a nation, do not deserve mercy.
As a nation we allow our unborn children to be slaughtered cruelly under the term 'free choice' and 'abortion rights'.
We allow godless men and women to flaunt their sexual perversions publicly, on television and in the streets of our cities ("Gay Pride" parades) and fill our public school children's' minds with garbage saying this "lifestyle choice" is fine and acceptable.
We say we are against child pornography, yet holler and scream about our "right to free speech" and this horrible exploitation of babies, children, and teens - both male and female, remains free for anyone at the click of a computer key. (Don't argue about it being free - it is free on many websites and easy to find. It makes me sick to my stomach, literally wanting to throw up in anger and grief.)
We avidly read about those in Hollywood, wanting to know all the latest gossip about their lives, real or not, doesn't matter. We just want to know who is sleeping with whom, who is doing drugs, who has been arrested, and so forth. We titillate our ears and eyes and minds through the lives of others.
At the same time that we are amusing ourselves to death, we ignore the rest of the world. Those in the Congo. Those in North Korea. Those in Yemen. Those in India. Those in many, many countries of the world who are dying in wars, in famines, in political persecutions, in poverty and disease, for their faith in Jesus Christ. We just want to know what the latest football score is and what's on tv tonight.
Oh - there are many other things I could write about. These are the main ones this morning, and I've barely scratched the surface of each one.
I look at them and I think - this is who we are as a nation. "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." That phrase actually makes me laugh at the irony of it this morning.
So, do I think that a President McCain and Vice-President Palin would fix all of the above mentioned problems? No. Not in the least. But that presidency might slow down our slide into total and complete socialism a bit more than an Obama/Biden presidency would. The M/P presidency may put a bit of a brake on the slide farther down into the muck and the filth, while a O/B presidency will just accelerate it.
Because I believe that within my lifetime our nation, The United States of America, will eventually be judged. We, as a nation, deserve to be judged, punished, maybe even destroyed. I pray, oh how I pray! that instead we will be judged, punished and brought to repentance before God.
Looking at the demographics of out nation, however, I do not have much hope that we will return to God in truth, in repentance, in the Light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not unless a powerful working of the Holy Spirit sweeps our country, convicting people of their sin and turning their hearts to the Truth, to Jesus Christ.
Oh Father God in heaven - Your will be done. Help us. Help your faithful children to remain faithful through what your are bringing to our nation. Help us to repent of our sin, to turn from it and seek your face. No matter who is chosen president. No matter what happens in the next year or four, give us Your strength to love you, to obey you, even to the death.
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