It’s the eve of the elections. Because of some clear lines of delineation between the two major political parties–differences that have been a long time in the process of crystalizing, but are now so very apparent–this may be one of the most telling days in the history of the United States. So what, exactly, will tomorrow tell? I’m not a political pundit and I’m surely not an economist, but even somebody like me can stand back and make some pretty concise, though simple, observations about what tomorrow will tell.
1. Tomorrow will tell who the next president will be. It will tell whether we, as a people, have chosen more of the status quo or if we’ve decided to go in a more fiscally and socially conservative direction. I, personally, wish the contrast between the status quo and the conservative were even starker than it, in fact, is, since the status quo is, by far, the most liberal and constitutionally unfettered presidency in history.
2. Tomorrow will tell if the United States will have a chance to regain its superior credit rating. It was a sad day when we lost the fiscal respect that came with that rating. Irresponsible spending is something that always comes back to haunt people of integrity. Living within the budget is a moral responsibility.
3. Tomorrow will tell whether or not the promise made “off-camera” by Obama to effectively weaken US nuclear defense will be kept:
“This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”
If it is kept, it will bring a great measure of comfort to the radical muslim world. (The radical muslim world = the Quran-keeping muslim world.)
4. Tomorrow will tell whether ObamaCare will be repealed or continue its path to fully remove healthcare from the private sector and fully place it in the purview of the US government. It will also tell if business owners will be forced to provide birth control as a part of health care benefits to employees, even when doing so is a violation of faith principles.
5. Tomorrow will tell if unemployed people will continue to be issued cell phones at the expense of tax payers, among lots of other extravagant give-aways of the current administration. I personally know folks who have been issued multiple free cell phones, at the same time. One of my friends offered to give me one of her extra Obama-phones.
6. Tomorrow will tell if we will start drilling in Alaska, if we will tighten sanctions on terrorist-friendly countries, and it will tell whether the immigration laws will be more fully enforced or less stringently imposed.
7. Far more important than any of the outcomes of the above #s 2-6, tomorrow will likely tell whether or not millions of future babies in America and around the world will ever have a chance to be born. Obama wasted no time in 2008 in allocating funding for millions of overseas abortions. He has protected the funding for Planned Parenthood. He has championed the rights of women in America and around the world to destroy babies in the womb using suction and strangulation methods, among others. He is simply without conscience when it comes to the innocent unborn, always placing the interests and convenience of women, who, in virtually all cases conceived babies in the same way that we all conceived our babies–consensual sex–again, I say…placing the interests and convenience of consenting women above the very lives of innocent babies who were never given any choice about whether or not to exist. Tomorrow will tell if the barbarism of murdering helpless innocents will continue at full steam with the backing of the most powerful man in the world. This is the one thing about tomorrow for which I am praying most diligently. If I could give my life today to stop the killing, I would gladly submit it
8. Tomorrow will tell if there is national hope remaining for the preservation of the sanctity of marriage. Marriage–the whole concept–was ordained by God himself. Atheists and agnostics marry, but they borrow the institution from God, Himself. He is its Legislator.
9. In short, tomorrow will tell whether or not the majority of people in this nation have abandoned respect for the laws of God. Any optimism I have is cautious. A nation that has, for a number of years now, been paying mothers to have babies out of wedlock, must now pay the price for exploding the population of fatherless children. Fatherless children are statistically those who are involved in gangs, bear more fatherless children, are more prone to be alcohol and drug dependent, are more violent and fill our jails. Thus, our tax dollars have for several years been funneled into increasing the immoral population. It’s this population that has new reached voting age and is now being paid to continue the population boom of the unprincipled. We have, quite literally, funded our own downfall. Oh, I know this nation has never technically been a Christian nation. But it was once a nation that almost unilaterally respected the moral laws that can only come from the Divine nature of God Himself. Certain blessings of peace and security are inherent in that respect. The loss of that respect necessarily plunges nations into chaos, weakness and destruction. Even if it is not too late, the clock is ticking, and, unless we address some of the very difficult root causes of our plunge into degradation, and, yes, unless we stop paying for the plunge, it will soon be too late. We may very well be there already.
To a great extent, tomorrow will tell. But “sufficient to the day is the evil thereof.” I am glad I am a Christian. I’m concerned about tomorrow, but it “will take thought for the things of itself (Mt. 6:34).” If America plunges headlong into chaos, I will still be ordered by the Will of God. If it plunges into a war of terrible proportions, I am in the Lord’s army and His forces will ultimately triumph. If it is overtaken by terrorists, I have a place of eternal refuge. Any child of God can endure anything for just a lifetime. Tomorrow is a red-letter day. It may tell us a lot about what we will be forced to endure. But, whatever it is, Christ endured more. He endured the cross and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God (Heb. 12:2). It is from that vantage point that He orders and secures my future. At the end of the day, even tomorrow, I will praise Him!
