Tuesday, November 4, 2008

This says SO MUCH BETTER what I tried to say below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFvlfc2VkN0

God's Wisdom

Election Day, 2008
It is long before 8 a.m. so there should be no report of election returns yet. But of course, CBS News "called" the election last night on the Evening News: Obama in a landslide.
So much for Campaign 2008!

I have been thinking about this day for several weeks. To be sure, I voted two weeks ago. There is nothing more I personally could do to change the outcome of this election on the national level. (Oh, sure, my post about Obama and the abortion issue was a small attempt. But I am not foolish enough to believe it changed a single vote. Some of the responses I got called me heartless when all I considered was a few "unwanted babies" and not the starving millions in Africa or the killed innocents, victims of war in Iraq. I pray for those who wrote thus!)

More importantly I have been thinking about why God would allow a person to be elected president who would lead this nation so far to the left. I guess I am resigned to the fact that Obama will win this election. And so I wonder what God has in mind for the United States of America. And that took me to consideration of God's part in the Passover and the death in Egypt of the firstborn son of every--EVERY--Egyptian from the Pharaoh on down to the prisoner in the dungeon and the firstborn of all the Egyptian cattle. What a distruction of human life and lives of the livestock! Surely that left Egypt with a great hole in their leadership! What was God thinking? Why? I considered the firstborn males in my family: my own husband, my son-in-law, my first grandson. It said a great cry rose up from every house in Egypt. Well I would think so!

But WHY would God do that? I mean, after all, He could have killed just a dozen firstborn and accomplished the same thing, right? What did God have in mind? As a typical rational western thinker, I have to ask again "WHY?"

God Himself answers me throughout Exodus. Whenever Moses or the other Israelites ask these questions, God replies with a simple answer: "I am the Lord. Beside me there is no other." What this tells me is that God is in charge. God knows the End from the Beginning. He knows WHY He does WHAT He does. In short, He knows the big picture, far beyond what I or any other reasonable person can even begin to see.

My husband tries to reassure me: The Republic will survive. He has a better grasp of the wisdom of God than I do! I will simply have to depend on God's faithfulness and soveriegnty and His ability to know the future beyond this evening--yea, even beyond this year or this decade! And it follows for me to depend on that faithfulness to carry us all--the Republic--through the next several years. We will still be a Country bound by the Consititution and Checks and Balances in the Federal government. Though we may see more liberal supreme court judges, we still have a people with a voice. Since I am part of that voice, I will continue to write and think and reflect while I sew those darn star blocks and finish up the Christmas stockings. (Of course all that plus go to Israel in two weeks and have ankle surgery in five!)