A Challenge

I am wondering if I should say anything about the elections? 

I will be brief. Although I am sad that Obama has won a second term, as it speaks of the state of our country and I don't know what shape it will be in four years from now, I can't help but think that this could be a good situation. I don't think that because of what I have seen so far, but because I know that perhaps under such a man the Church will begin to pray. 

I have often thought about Daniel in the Bible, and about the fact that this simple servant, this slave, who simply prayed to a God that he knew, was able to influence and change three different Kings of the most powerful kingdom in the world at the time. Just because we do not have a godly man as our President does not mean that this cannot change. What if there really was a "change" what if there really was "hope"? Not in Obama, that would be against the point, but in a God who loves us, and for His people to really begin to look to Him. 

The reason our nation is falling apart is not because of one man or the other who lives in the capital and 'suggests' some laws and Vitos others, but it is because of the lack of morality in the people. You all know this already, but the question is, when are we, when are you (specifically you) going to honestly pray...not say you are going to pray and then forget, or pray once when you are upset about it so that you feel better before you go to bed, but really pray. When are you going not only to 'believe' in moral principles, but walk them out. Teach your children about the word of God and live it without expecting them to turn away (lets face it, there are tons of Americans who expect their teenagers to be rebellious, my parents didn't and my siblings and I were not) If the Church was using it's money to take care of the poor instead of build a nicer building then we would have far less empty buildings, and the government wouldn't have to tax us in order to give more and more to welfare. This is a fact. When will we begin to actually live the way that we talk? 

So many people say that they believe in forgiveness, but ask them to forgive a person who had an abortion and they will not know what to do with you, especially if it is recent. Ask them to pray for the President and they will pray only that he looses his job, is that showing Christian love? 

I don't mean to preach, I mean to challenge, I want you to think about what I am saying to you. I want you to take the time, literally and actually pray for President Barak Hussein Obama, and his family, lets face it, his beautiful family, that they would be courageous, and wise. That they would become patriots, and that they would learn to fear the Lord. I pray that these four years we could learn to love our enemies, and that instead of ranting, we would be the change instead of expecting or blaming someone else for the change that is around us. Maybe not brief, but I hope you get my point.