November 5th....

Well, here we are and it's November 5th. The election is over and the thing I dreaded has happened. I am rather 'down' today and so disappointed in my country. Here's why... our nation has just done something terrible that it doesn't even realize. I say this speaking from a spiritual perspective and so those who may read this who are not Christians aren't going to 'get' where I'm coming from (because they have a different perspective on the world). What this nation has just done is chosen for ourselves a leader that will absolutely take us right out from under the umbrella of God's mercies.

We are a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles; our laws are built on these principles and the government was organized and set up according to them also. That may not be how it's taught in the schools today - but it's still true regardless. God lays it out pretty plainly in the Bible about how our choices (both individually & as a nation) will put us either under an umbrella of God's mercy & protection ~OR~ take us out from under it. America has been making some pretty bad decisions about what we will allow to take place over the last 35-40 years... we're ripe for God's judgment. I believe that the main reason it hasn't fully fallen yet, is that we've always had enough people with a more conservative set of beliefs to keep things in check. That is gone now (in government).

Yesterday, America voted for a candidate for President who can't even prove that he's legally eligible to be the POTUS and most don‘t seem to care. America really doesn't know enough about this man to know where his true allegiance is placed. America voted for someone who is (at the very least) very socialistic, even if he isn’t a card-carrying socialist. America voted for someone who attacks and shuts down anyone who is brave enough to ask him a real question about his ideas, agenda, character, judgment, etc.... America voted for someone that is the most radically liberal senator the US Senate has ever seen. America voted for someone who is more radically pro-abortion than even the radical group, NARAL; America essentially voted for No Restraints on any type of abortion and they’ve actually voted for infanticide (and many don’t even realize what they’ve done) because BHO has promised to sign the ‘Freedom of Choice Act’ ASAP. America has voted to cut defense spending & cater to terrorist nations and therefore make our nation’s defenses weak. America has voted to deny free speech rights to those people who hold to a conservative set of values by choosing Obama who supports the so-called ‘Fairness Act’. America has voted to move ‘Chicago-style politics’ into the White House by voting for Obama. By choosing to vote for Obama, America has chosen SO MANY Radical things that it doesn’t even realize it was making a decision on. Our nation just picked a ruler whose record is clear...he votes against Godly principles. This means we’ve chosen to step out from under that protective umbrella even if the nation didn’t realize what it was choosing. Actually, when a people chose to turn from God, they usually don’t realize just what they’re doing.

Now, having said all that, I’m still glad to be an American. I Know that God can (and will) still cover and protect His people who choose to follow His principles and look to Him as Lord. There will be a transfer of power in January as there always is after an election in the US and Christians all through the land will pray for our nation’s leaders and ask God to guide Obama. God will answer those prayers and will provide Heavenly guidance to the President. Let us hope that he will listen to the guidance of God over his own very radical, liberal inclinations. Then, perhaps, America will continue to exist under God’s mercies instead of feeling the force of His judgment because of how far America has strayed from Him.

“...if my people, who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” 2 Chron. 7:14