Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. It’s cold outside but I couldn’t resist bundling up and stepping outside to watch the Master wake up the world this morning. It’s a big day in America; the day we vote to elect the next President of the United States, and the world is in a uproar…but, not me. I know the One who set the stars in the sky and knows them each by name and I know that He knows the outcome long before the votes are cast…He knew the outcome before the foundations of the earth! I Trust the One who Rules the earth and everything in it and I Trust His Plans for me and my Country. Faith is a whole lot more than believing in the Living God…it’s Trusting Him through it all. Isn’t that the way you look at this election time too?
Some people are living in fear about what’s happening in America but not me…I’m sad. When I see the gnashing of teeth over this side or that side, it reminds me of what Hell will be like for so many. When I see the backbiting and the insults spit out from one corner of the United States to the other it reminds me of what evil looks like. When I see violence in our streets and innocent blood being shed, it reminds me of how God defines “hate.” When I see people willing to kill over the color of skin, it reminds me of how we’re all made in His image” – to hate over the color of the skin is to hate the One Who “knit you together in your mother’s womb.” When I hear about people ready to “bear arms” if their candidate isn’t elected, it reminds me of how few Trust the Hand of the Living God. When I hear people express their fear over “what’s going to happen if…” it reminds me of how arrogant we are to fight back about whatever it is that God ordains. Just a brief walk through the Bible to see how the disciples lived, loved, AND died WITHOUT spitting out insults and turning to hate THEN you’d Understand the way it’s done in Christ-like fashion. To genuinely Know Him is to genuinely TRUST Him through it all…this is where Peace is found in a world filled with turmoil.
The hate in America is so thick you can almost cut it with a knife but it has no place in the Heart of a child of the Living God. We have the right to be heard…to vote…to stand up for what we believe in, BUT we don’t have the right to hate…according to the Living God, that is. We have the right to “bear arms” and fighting to maintain that right is important…but the Arms we need at such a time as this never requires a bullet. Sometimes I wonder what these United States would look like if God’s people were as passionate about telling people about their God as they are to tell people about their candidate. Sometimes I wonder if we’d be in a land filled with hate at all if God hadn’t quit being our First Priority in the land that touts “in God we Trust”. Sometimes I try to imagine what it would be like if people of Faith actually walked it and talked it, and what it would feel like if they could recite His Goodness with the same accuracy (and passion) as they can detail a ballot for their guy. Darkness cannot exist in the Light…it’s too bad there isn’t more Light.I’m an alien in a foreign land and I’m just passing through. The United States of America is my home on earth and it’s still the greatest Nation in the world, BUT my Home…my permanent Home…my Eternal Home…is just around the corner and One Day I’ll be with the One Who Created and Rules the Universe. Until then, I’m praying, I’m Trusting and I’M BELIEVING in His Plans. After all, His Plans have been in place since before the earth was formed and His Plans are Perfect…ALWAYS.
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