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"Shouldn't we pick our president based on more than
just faith issues?"
America is so indebted today that we are no longer talking about how to pay it
off, but how to keep making the interest payments when the baby boomers retire. During the 1970's oil crisis, we imported 26% of our oil;
today
that figure is
56%. 48 million Americans lack medical cover. Even more are hooked on drugs,
gambling and
pornography. America hosts 89% of the world's pornographic webpages. 40% of our
children are being born out of wedlock.
Iran is about to go
nuclear. Radical
Islam is on the rise.
So are "natural" disasters. The list goes on ...
Despite the rhetoric, Is any President really going to solve these issues?
Our challenges are such that
they can't be solved even if McCain, Palin, Obama and Biden's best President
ial attributes were
combined. What America needs today isn’t some superhero President, but God.
Four centuries ago, God saw a boatload of Christian
s leave the comforts of Europe to
worship Him unhindered in an uncharted land, and blessed their descendents
into a mighty nation. At the height of our prosperity, however, that "Christian"
nation turned away
from God, who is withdrawing the prosperity and security that always was and is
His.
Israel was in a similar situation after the prosperity of Solomon’s
reign when it turned away from God and ignored repeated warnings to turn back.
God eventually destroyed Israel and sent its people into exile, not out of hate
but out of love because they wouldn’t have turned back to Him - whom they needed
more than prosperity or even freedom - without the persecution.
But such an outcome doesn't have to be.
The Bible also
speaks of Nineveh, a great power in its day that like Israel was about to be
destroyed. But unlike Israel, the Ninevites heeded
God's warning and led by its
king, humbled themselves before
God in time.
This election should be first and foremost about our contrition as a nation before
God and a cry for His help, which we can express
by electing the Presidential ticket that will sincerely rely on God's help, one that will
pray, "Yes HE can"
instead of rebelliously chanting, "Yes We Can."
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