Heh...

I felt really…awkward I suppose, putting up that last post, just because it was talking about how between each Sundays we have had 7 days for God to lavish his grace upon us. However, it just so happens that yesterday, Tuesday, November 4th, Democrats dominated the senate, congress, and even the White House. For some of us, that might be a good thing, but for some of us, it isn’t.

I probably don’t have to tell you my personal beliefs, and I think there are many in the same boat. One friend commented on the results:

“Millions will die, America will fall, socialism will rise....

...But we're all winners! :D”

I have to agree with his first part there…yes it will probably happen, but another friend gave a more mature answer:

"Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall." - Psalm 55:22

As the election results roll in tonight, I suggest we remember this verse. Let's put our trust in God, not in our fellow citizens or our elected leaders. No matter what the results are tonight, if this is our attitude, we cannot fail.

"One and God make a majority." - Frederick Douglass”

I really appreciated what he had to say because it made me think a lot about how it doesn’t even really matter, to some extent. A president, here for 4 years, does not eliminate God’s presence, or God’s will being carried out.

And just because we have elected a man half of us wish wasn’t elected, that doesn’t mean we become bitter and rot inside because of it.
Some verses I found really, well, comforting at this time were these:

Romans 13:1 "Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God."

1 Peter 2:13-14 "Be subject for the Lord’s sake to every human institution, whether it be to the emperor as supreme, or to governors as sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good."

Psalm 121:1-2 "I will lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth."

Romans 8:38-39 "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

So, no matter who’s sitting in the Oval Office, God’s sitting way higher, on His throne in Heaven. And, just to let you know, the Throne inn Heaven is much more powerful, rules so much more, and is capabale of things Barack Obama couldn’t even dream of doing.
Keep your eyes on Heaven. Remember that God is still here, Barack was put here by God, and soon, it won’t matter who was president in 2008.

So remember this when we worship. God is still here, his gift of life didn’t suddenly vanish, His son’s work on the cross wasn’t magically erased. Obama can’t do that with his tiny packet of power that God gave him. This is a reason to give glory to our God.