Well, we have done it. We have elected a president! My biggest regret is that it isn’t David Palmer of Fox’s 24. We need a decisive leader, and that is something we do not have in Obama. Someone who votes “present” is about as bold a decision maker as a child responding to roll call in 1st grade.
I am sorry that sounds so blunt, but wer are currently facing true crisis of a magnitude we have never seen. The challenges we face as a nation are in every arena. When I saw 24 a few years back, before Obama was even on the political scene, I saw a president in David Palmer that I was ready to vote for! I sure wish leaders were like that in real life!
Please understand, I can relate to the euphoria that many are experiencing on some levels, but that will quickly fade. I am just a young man myself, 34 years old. I am too young to really understand racism. I never have been racist, and if you want me to be honest, I have only experienced the opposite, black anger toward the white man syndrome. Racism does go both ways you know.
Of course I have met racist people, but they have always been seen as an anomaly to my generation. Maybe we were blessed, but it has never been a problem for us.
I have noticed the older generation always saying ” I don’t see color” and “I am color blind” . I have always found that laughable. I have always seen color. I am not color blind. There is nothing wrong with color! Thank you God for painting our world with beautiful people! Thank you for all of the races and nations and cultures!
It is hard for me to comprehend the way it must have felt to not be able to eat at the same restaurant and drink at the same water fountain. That era was just a few short years before I was born, yet I look at the people who held those disturbing views of humanity as blind at best.
When I look at this election through the lens of the pain that African Americans have endured for ages, it is cause for serious celebration for me. I rejoice that we have given ourselves the message that we are not racist as a people. It has been true for quite a while, but at least we have made that statement.
We need to know however that as sure as there are people who will cheat on taxes and their spouses, as sure as people will become drug addicts and murderers, there will always be racist people. Those issues are sin issues and can only be effectively dealt with through the Cross of Jesus Christ.
We should feel pride as Americans that we have moved beyond the petty race card as a people. I hope that it is understood that Obama would not have been elected without white people. I hope Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will retire now, since they are relics of the past. All they do is gin up hate and racism toward white people. Their hateful rhetoric is obsolete and embarrassing.
Obama has a chance to do some amazing things for America. He also has an opportunity to destroy this nation. Which road will he take? Will he allow criticism of his decisions and policies to be painted as “racism” by the media on his behalf? Or will he be a true leader and accept the controversy and flack that will be his in abundance simply as part and parcel of the office he will occupy?
Today Oprah said she has never seen such unity in America, less than 24 hours after Obama’s acceptance speech. Unity? 56 million were not in unity with the decision to elect Obama! I am not a republican. I am not a democrat, or a libertarian. I do love my country, and believe the constitution is something we should adhere to. It is inspired by many principles that agree with the ultimate King, Jesus.
I am a Christian first, and my allegiance is to Jesus Christ. He paid the ultimate price to be my leader, he shed his blood on the cross for my sin. God accepted His perfect sacrifice in place of my judgment, and He raised Him from the dead. I serve a living, speaking leader named Jesus Christ. He has given me His Spirit to live on the inside of my heart and to strengthen me to live as a new creature. Although I am not perfect, my heart is not utterly sinful, it is regenerated and I delight in the laws of God. My viewpoints are to represent the King of all Kings, Jesus Christ. I have been commanded to be salt and light.
James 1:27 says the following “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”
An orphan is a child or baby that has been abandoned by its parent. Abortion is killing an orphan. It is that simple. My religion is worthless if I don’t stand to protect the innocent. Any leader that promotes abortion as a choice is violating the most basic human right, the right to life. Obama has taken a strong stand to protect the right to abort a baby. Millions of orphaned babies are being “aborted” in America. It is truly a silent holacaust. These innocent children have blood that is crying out to God.
I know, the intellectual high minded people that now simply yawn at such an argument have hearts of stone. How can you expect a stone to understand?
Despite the fact that I believe Obama’s economic ideas are a nightmare, and his energy policies will be painful to endure, and his “out of the closet” socialistic philosophy if implemented could steer our nation down a road that only revolution could reverse, I have to park at how his agenda to promote and protect the right to kill innocent babies will be the most horrific to endure.
To my brothers and sisters in Christ, if you voted for Barack Obama because he was black and overlooked his position on abortion, you have chosen honor man and dishonor God. Do you realize that?
I know that is the celebration of the day, that we elected someone of color. I have to stand and thank God that we did that. But that was not the most important crieteria for choosing a president. I don’t care what color the candidate is.
Nevertheless, he is my president, and I honor the highest office of my great nation. I will pray for him and his family, and I will stand with him and support him. However, I will not dishonor God and agree with promoting sin and evil on any level. I will still let the Bible alone declare what a sin is.
Mr President, your past statements and affiliations give me pause, but I know we all have fallen short of God’s glory. His forgiveness and love are extended toward you. I pray that you will hear the voice of the almighty and be strengthened to take a stand for the innocent lives being terminated on a daily basis.
Character comes from conforming to Christ, and being obedient to His ways. When I look at the criteria by which the majority vote was cast, it causes me to dig deep for the resolve to face the battles ahead. We all must stand for what we believe, and do it unashamedly and without fear.
Ultimately, I feel like I have to stand with Martin Luther King jr. in my lament. I long for the day in which we will judge someone not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. We sure didn’t follow that recipe this time around.
