I am so glad Tuesday has come and gone.
I will say that I was hoping for a different outcome.
But, truthfully, I was not doing back flips for either candidate.
I had serious issues with both of them. Still do...one just happens to be our President.
We have been doing the Beth Moore bible study of "Daniel" for the past 11 weeks. Oddly enough, this study has prepared and granted peace to me during this political season of unrest.
As the name of the study states, it centers on the life and prophecy given to Daniel in the bible.
It is fascinating, scary, fun, confusing, powerful, serious, and mind-blowing.
But God wrote and inspired it...and He is all of those things as well.
Daniel received some heavy prophetic words from God during his life on earth. We are blessed to read as history what he only heard God say....not what he lived to see with his own eyes.
Daniel also lived through perilous days as one of God's chosen people. He knew freedom as a kid then captivity as a teenager. He chose to live a life sold out and surrendered to God....he honored God in his choices even to the foods he would eat.
Because of his sacrifice for God, wisdom and understanding was given to Daniel. He could discern dreams foretelling of future events. So trusted was he that God allowed him to know in advance political powers that would take-over and others that would be de-throned.
So....I explain all of that to say....that I HATE what is happening in our political culture.
So many things I hold dear and precious seem to be getting stripped away.
Morality seems out of date and if you stand for something you are labeled "intolerant".
Daniel held fast to his God when he was surrounded by a wicked culture. He didn't curse it. He didn't shrink back from it. He didn't judge the people. He simply interceded with consistent prayers. I believe he hated it just like I hate mine. But he was moved to act in prayer.
I am too.
God is sovereign.
He knows all. He handles all. He makes sure the sun comes up each morning. He tells the moon and stars to come out at night.
Nothing escapes His watchful eye.
No one or nothing can usurp His power.
Lightning flashes because He tells it to.
Thunder rolls at His command.
But we also know He is purposeful. He has a plan. Nothing happens that He doesn't allow.
I believe with everything in me that we are living in some treacherous days. I don't know enough to call them "end times" but I do know that as a culture we look similar to a passage in the bible.
"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God---having a form of godliness but denying its power." 2 Timothy 3:1-4
Ouch.
I see myself in that passage. I certainly see the culture than surrounds me.
However I believe God longs to still bless his kids, his "Daniels", that purpose in their hearts to be different.
Just as Daniel was blessed in a wicked culture....I think we could be too.
We are gonna have to be crazy intentional to not give in to being like the described folks in that passage.
Instead I want to be in on this group of people...
"In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days,
and they will prophesy.
I will show wonders in the heaven above
and signs on the earth below." Acts 2:17-19
Politics doesn't scare me.
But I reverently fear a providential God.
Let's pray for our leaders as Daniel did. Let's live with purpose!
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