What It All Comes Down To . . .

There is one thing a vast majority of us appear to agree on:  It's a Mess.  Each of the only two feasible (without a miracle, which isn't impossible!) candidates is a train wreck in his/her own ways, and I certainly don't need or want to elaborate on that.  We all know we've gotten ourselves (collectively) into a pickle.

Let's move on.

Not that the past isn't important.  After all, a large part of why we are where we are is because we don't choose to learn from history.  History is important!  It lets us in on powerful secrets that could benefit us on so many levels.  But we the human race have been closing our ears to the past since . . . well, since the earth was old enough to have a past.

Right now, however, we are looking mostly to the future.  And we as a people seem to be afraid of the situation we have created for ourselves.  That fear causes desperation.  And desperation causes ugliness in attitudes, words, and actions.

Why are we desperate?  Mostly because we want things our way.  We want to be comfortable and blissful and taken care of.

But God isn't desperate.  And He's the One in charge.  He doesn't want us to feel desperate, but He loves us in the midst of our choice of desperation all the same.

What it all comes down to is that God is going to allow HIS will to happen on Tuesday next.  He has His reasons . . . maybe for judgment (which we can't actually say we don't deserve); maybe for revival; maybe for reasons we could never come up with in our limited human minds.

If you're one of my fellow Christ-followers, it isn't easy to see our God being disrespected and ignored and hated as He is and will continue to be; and, if we're honest, it's probably even more difficult to swallow the idea of us suffering persecution for our faith.  While we are right to fight appropriately for the Kingdom, we ought not to be surprised to see the things the Bible predicted playing out in front of our eyes.

God hasn't ceased to be a loving, forgiving God.  He also hasn't ceased to be just and disciplining.  Only He understands how all His attributes have balanced in His choice of our new president.  And only He knows the mystery of how our choices affect His choices and vice versa.

So, I'm not going to tell you who I think you should vote for (that's not to say that I think it's a bad thing to share valid info about the candidates).  In fact, I'm not going to worry at all about who you vote for.  Each of you is going to vote for the person you are convinced is the best choice you have, just as I am, and my potentially frenzied thoughts aren't going to change anything.  So I will choose to refuse to dwell on them or think less of people who don't vote the way I do. 

Instead, I will do the one thing that can make any difference at this point.

I will continue to pray.

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