Friday, November 07, 2008
My president, but not my savior...
I have been pondering the words of Isaiah 9:2 and Matthew 4:16 which says, "the people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned."
This really has put this election in perspective for me. As Romans 8 tells us, all creation is groaning for redemption. We were all created with a God shaped hole in us. The intangible part of us that makes us who we are, our soul, our spiritual being yearns for a Savior. Psalm 42:2 says, "My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God?" Further, in Psalm 84 we read "My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God."
America has turned from God. Worse, Americans are running as fast as they can in the opposite direction desperate to quell the cry of their heart for it's Creator with anything. America truly believes that President Elect Obama is the cure for what ails it. But Mr. Obama is a sinful man just like the rest of us. Even if he were a man who did what is pleasing in the eyes of the Lord he is still finite and imperfect. Whether he is good for America or further devastates America, Americans will still be disappointed. America did not elect a president. America elected a savior. America has commited idolatry against God by idolizing His creation, Barack Obama. The cost for this will not be small. And the change America longs for will not come until it turns it's heart toward God.
"For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless." Psalm 84:11
"For in my inner being I delight in God's law; but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin." Romans 7:22-25
About Me
- mothergoose518
- Somewhat Crunchy, Old Fashioned, Fundamental Bible Believing Christian.
Full time stay at home mom to many.
(Two by choice, Six by birth, Eight in Heaven)
Infertility, miscarriage, and stillbirth survivor.
College student. Relaxed homeschooler. Molder of hearts and minds. Cheerer of ball games.
Lover of books. Stringer of words. Wanna be photographer.
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