I have some serious reservations about Mr. Obama’s background, his stance on abortion, and his view on the homosexual agenda.  There isn’t much I agree with Mr. Obama on, but is God using Him to accomplish something that lies beyond our field of vision?  I know this, God does things outside of our political tastes, preferences, and agendas. HE is bigger than democracy, bipartisanship, and our ideologies. Our freewill, our political slants, and wants and desires get in our way, not His.  Maybe God is trying to turn us from our reliance upon a political party and back to HIM.  Remember, the early church, by the power of the Holy Spirit and in a hostile environment turned the world upside down thru prayer and evangelization.

 

I don’t know the whole of it, but I have my suspicions concerning some of it.  We invoke, “If my people…,” but I’m not sure we are ready for the way in which God “will hear from heaven and heal our land.”  There is a wound in America that is bigger and more serious than our economic and foreign policy problems.  It is larger than Washington’s combined resources, yet God may be offering us an opportunity to experience the healing of our land…if we are willing to humble ourselves. 

 

Being black in America in the 1800’s–1930s, 40s and 50s and 60s and 70s had to be more than difficult.  I say “had to be,” because White America has no idea what it was like to not be white during those times.  Blacks couldn’t vote, were terrorized by hood wearing hate mongers, forced to ride on the back seats of buses, denied entry into a world dominated by whites and so on.  Sure, Amendment XV gave black people the right to vote in 1870, but Jim Crow quickly snatched away that right.  President Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of 1965 finally embraced black Americans as full citizens with equal rights.   

 

I graduated from high school in 1965 and while it may seem ancient history to some, it was a mere forty-three years ago.  Let me try and put this in terms we can understand.  Men who fought in WWII still carry the emotional scars from what they experienced in the 40’s and understandably so.  Many Vietnam vets still haven’t recovered from what they went through in the 60s and understandably so.  Is it unreasonable to believe that the wounds inflicted on the black community for more than 150 years and within our lifetime still need healing?    … 

 

The election of Mr. Obama touched that wound and the healing affect of that touch was evidenced in the tears shed upon realizing that Mr. Obama had been elected.  What if God is calling us to humble ourselves, so that we might experience the healing of our land?  What if this is only the beginning of the healing He wishes to bring?  What if He wants to deliver us from our pride, our self-reliance, our materialism, our insatiable appetite for pleasure…?  What if He wants to restore value to our currency…not its monetary value but the value of the message inscribed on it–IN GOD WE TRUST?  What if He desires to unite our nation from sea to shining sea?  What if God is turning again to bless America?  What if He has once again chosen a Cyrus?  What if we have a part to play in the outcome?  …