ELECTION THOUGHTS

"Then the angel said to me, 'The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages" (Revelation 17:15).

Have you ever sat on the beach and watched the waves come into shore? Have you ever watched the tide come in or go out? A preacher friend of mine was wading in waist-deep water on a Florida beach. Who would have thought he could have been swept out into the ocean nearly a mile? Even though the waters look calm, the waters are alive with currents.

So it is with people. The most quiet people can have the strongest emotions within them. With people groups there are certainly ebbs and flows of emotions, values. There is never stasis!

We witnessed the ebb and flow of the American people in the election on Tuesday. To me it was personally disheartening to see the expansion of liberalism. In my view, it will destroy America, but if that is the change the American people want, so be it. The positive results of the election were: A black man was elected as president, and homosexual marriage was blocked in California. The courts will probably over-rule the will of the people on that issue, however.

Obama is my President. Conservatives will certainly treat him with much more respect than liberals treated President Bush. The liberals publicly called for Bush's assassination, and hurled every insult imaginable at him. Yet, in twenty years it will be recognized that Bush was one of our better presidents. In this financial crisis, brought on by Democrat congressional leadership in both houses, we are finding out that the economy of the United States is still the strongest in the world! (Note the strength of the dollar.) We have not had a terrorist attack on America since 911. Bush could have done much better, but if Obama does as well, we will be blessed.

As Christian people, our citizenship is in heaven; there is our hope. Utopia will not be found on earth! There will always be ebbs, flows and even stormy seas when it seems that all is lost, but the Christian's hope is in the one who cannot be shaken, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

I think one of the lessons that Christians should learn from this election is the futility of pushing Christian values on the non Christian through political power. Christian values are accepted by hearts that have surrendered to Jesus Christ. Not everyone who calls himself a Christian is one if they only have accepted Jesus as Savior, but never surrendered to Him as Lord.

Grace&Peace,
Tom