I am completely confident that God gives us the leaders we need/deserve to fulfill His ultimate plan in our midst. I’m pretty sure that He’s going to allow things to happen, that I’m not particularly comfortable with.

• He is going to determine which party has the greatest influence and which individuals in that party will have a play in it all.
• He is going to allow corrupt things to happen under the government He establishes.  (Mankind will still have his free-will and mankind will still be subject to their fallen natures.)
• He is going to allow our system of government to either; strengthen in Capitalism, or continue to creep towards Socialism. 
• He is going to let people that we might consider “evil”, to go and cast their vote.  He will allow their vote to count.
• He is going to allow the government to propose laws that that are morally offensive to us.
• He is going to allow the government to propose laws and policies that might even limit our religious freedom, or possibly even promote some form of persecution.
• He has already shown us, that He is willing to allow Roe vs. Wade to stand, even though it permits one murder every 20 seconds here in the USA.
• He might even allow our government to change the constitution, and take our guns away.  He allowed it in Britain and in Australia.

What does the Bible have to say?

“Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities.  For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.”  (Romans 13:1)”

“..submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors…  I Peter 2:13, 14″

“…be subject to rulers and authorities… Titus 3:1″

“… these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority and speak evil of dignitaries…. Jude 5:8″

“the king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.”

Who establishes our government?  Who calls us to be in submission to it?  Who tells us to not speak negatively of it?   – You got it!   God.

Right now, the day before the election, there are a bunch of Christians (people are told to “not fear” 366 times in the Bible), who are shaking in their boots over the result of tomorrow’s vote.  They act as if one candidate is God’s and the other candidate belongs to Satan.  They base this mostly on their positions concerning the abortion issue.  Personally, I stand with my fellows in the faith on this issue, for I feel that a person’s view on life reveals a lot about their principles and their character.  Personally, I want a leader with principles and character.

Unfortunately, principles and character don’t always give us what we want.  I think George Bush is a man of strong principles and character.  I think that he’s even a guy that I would like, sincerely as a person.  And yet, even with that, the government has grown larger under his term than under any other president’s.  I don’t want big government.  The party that is supposed to be about smaller government gave me exactly what I expected out of the Democrats.

I personally think that one candidate expresses more character than the other.  I’ll vote for that one.  I’ll go tomorrow and vote, because this is a practice and an expression of freedom.  At the same time, I can honestly say, that I don’t think my vote will mean anything on the other side of the lever.  It’s in God’s hands…  not ours.  I wish I could vote for someone that would be easier to support as my president.  Either way, I’m going to have a hard time feeling supportive of the guy who takes the office.  But I will be.

For the past 8 years, people have had anti-George Bush stickers on their cars.  If Obama gets the vote, we’ll see 4-8 years of anti-Obama stickers.  I’ll never have one.  If you’re a Christian, you’d better not have one either. We can speak our minds about the policies of our presidentt, but we cannot obediently speak evil of our dignitaries.  We cannot disrespect an authority that is placed there by God.

God called Nebuchadnezzar, “My servant” several times.  He was the guy who wanted people to worship his image or die.  He was the guy who threw the faithful into the fiery furnace.  He took God’s chosen people into captivity and destroyed Jerusalem.

That was God’s servant.

Very soon, we’ll know, who God’s servant will be here in the U.S.A.