The election

I've been watching for the past hour or so with a growing sick feeling deep in my stomach as democratic candidates from all different races in NC and the USA win one race after another. I just have a hard time understanding why God is allowing candidates who don't want to protect His ideal for marriage to win. I can't understand why God is allowing candidates who think there is nothing wrong with killing innocent babies during any part of pregnancy for any reason to lead our country or hold positions in our state. I can't understand why the people of this country feel that the economy, which has been bad before and always turns around eventually, is a more important issue than protecting the lives of innocent babies, the ideals of marriage, the very foundations of our country. Are they not able to look past the current crisis to the next generation that is being slaughtered before it is even born?

And then I realized...God is allowing this because He gave us free will. We can choose to follow Him, or we can choose to plot our own path. America has chosen to plot its own path, and we will reap the consequences. Sometimes a todler doesn't learn what "hot" means until they touch the stove. Tonight, America is reaching towards the burner.

I've been in prayer all day for our country. For the direction it has chosen. For the next 4 years. I've prayed that God will work on the heart of whomever is elected, because I don't think ANY candidate is perfect. I've prayed that God will protect us from fearmongering, from terrorism, from crushing financial strain. But I know that, just like any good Father, God sometimes steps aside and lets His children suffer the consequences of their actions and I have to believe that when a nation chooses a leader who believes so differently from what I see to be Biblical truth, there will be consequences to suffer.

God Bless America. Tonight this is more than a slogan, it is a plea.