Thoughts for Today

Therapy for Post-Election Blues by Pastor Mark Chanski

So, you’re discouraged and downcast about the outcome of the presidential election?  You’d hoped for better.  You’re concerned that we’ve taken a huge step backwards on such crucial morality issues like abortion, homosexuality, and stem cell research.  You fear our nation is culturally slipping into a season of ethical darkness.  You’re tempted to think that evil has somehow snuck up into the heavenly throne-room, seized, gagged, and bound God in a celestial corner, while unchecked wickedness will now trash history for a four-year term.  You may feel the onset of spiritual depression.

Don’t go there.  The children of God have every reason to rejoice in their Father’s undisturbed and sovereign reigning over the events of the November election.  The Bible is clear.  The decision was ultimately the Lord’s.  “For not from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert comes exaltation; but God is the Judge; He puts down one, and exalts another” (Psalm 75:6-7).  We ought to hold to the deep conviction that Barack Obama is God’s man for the White House.

The carpenter holds his power drill.  He’s finished with the drill bit for boring holes.  He removes and puts down the boring bit, passes by the screw-driver bit, then selects and inserts the sanding bit.  He has purposeful and important work to do.  Likewise, the Lord has put down Bush/Cheney, passed by McCain/Palin, and exalted Obama/Biden.  He has work to do. 

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Comments

[Serenity]

I loved where this one was going the moment I tried to picture God bound and gagged.

[Julana]

I'm happy about Obama's election, even though I didn't vote for him. There is racial healing to be done in this country.
His choice of SC Justices and his lack of the will to put a brake on liberal initiatives of Congress will be a concern.

[Simone]

I hear the fear in my friends and family who voted for John McCain. It concerns me for them - that they are in such fear. I wish I could send this to them all in hopes it would calm them and give them peace - God is in control. God would have been in control if McCain won, but from the sounds of the fear, it seems as if McCain would have been so in control, God could have sat this one out.

People talk about Obama, but forget that he IS a Christian and, unlike McCain, he has not (to our knowledge) ever cheated on his wife (multiple times) who cared for his children, alone, while he was away defending this great nation...So much talk about the righteous and moral candidate. God in control regardless of who is on the American throne.