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I read a news story today that reported on another study about the “obesity epidemic” among children. The culprit, according to the story, is the unhealthy school lunch paid for by the government (in other words, paid for by taxpayers) to feed children whose parents can’t afford to feed them.
Let me get this straight: these children are so poor and hungry that they are……..obese?
Is anyone else out there puzzling over this discrepancy?
There is no doubt that the Lord calls us to feed those who are hungry, but I think His definition of “hungry” might differ from our government’s definition of hungry. I’m thinking of the children in Africa who are literally skin and bones, whose bellies poke out not from too many twinkies and cokes but from malnutrition. These children might get one bowl of rice a day, period. No strawberries or apples or bananas. No carrots or green beans or salad. Just rice. Those are the kids who truly need $2.92 a meal, which is what a typical school meal costs.
Our government nannies at the Department of Agriculture dictate that our US kids need more fruit and vegetables and whole grains, and they require schools districts who get federal lunch money (taxpayer lunch money) to provide meals that adhere to the food pyramid guidelines. I’m okay with that — I’d much rather my tax dollars pay for homemade bread than pop tarts — but there’s a catch (of course). The government (again, that means we the taxpayers) only pays out $2.68 per lunch. According to the School Nutrition Association, each “free” lunch costs about $2.92 each. Who makes up the difference? We do. To cover the cost differential, schools increase the cost of lunch for everyone else.
What does this twenty-four cent difference mean for the average taxpayer who does not qualify for the free lunch program?
In 2007, 5.1 Billion free lunches were served. At a twenty-four cent shortfall per lunch, that means there were $1.2 million between what those lunches cost and what taxpayers paid. Those of you whose children eat school lunches paid extra, on top of what you already pay in income tax, to cover the difference.
During the general election I wrote a blog about Michelle Obama’s comments regarding making sure that everyone “gets a piece of the pie.”
Hmmm. What kind of pie was she referring to? The School Lunch pie? The Medicaid pie? How about that Social Security pie?
What kind of pie do you deserve?
Me?
I’d rather serve it than eat it.
12When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them.13“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. 15I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
John 13
I am not permitting parents to opt students from viewing the president’s message, since this is a purely educational event.”
-Dr. Arthur Tate Jr., Superintendent of Schools, Tempe Elementary School District Number 3, Arizona
Hmm. Not permitting? Just who do the kids in your school district belong to, their parents, or to the state?
The White House dismisses criticism (they do that all the time these days) from parents who object to the idea of their children being forced to watch the President’s speech on education this coming Tuesday. As an educator, I am all FOR encouraging children on the benefits of lifelong learning, including speeches from our elected leaders. The speech itself is not what shocked me. The “suggested classroom activities” for PreK-6th graders are what made this teacher blink and take a step back.
Understand that it is a good thing for a classroom teacher to build background knowledge, encourage students to take notes, and provide time for discussion in response to any speech. All of those are very important pieces of learning.
However, the Teaching Ambassador Fellows with the U.S. Dept. of Education, who wrote these suggested activities, have a different view of government than I do, and it clearly shows through in the words that they chose. They wrote their suggested activities from the perspective that the Government is supreme and the people answer to the Government. The quote above from the Arizona school superintendent is proof that there are many in our great republic who have lost sight of what it means to be a federation of states rather than a top-heavy federal entity.
From a professional educator’s perspective, here is what is right and what is wrong with the outlook of these much-debated suggested lesson plans:
Before the Speech
This plan suggests that teachers build background knowledge by reading books about Presidents “and Barack Obama.” The office of the presidency is larger than the man, is it not? Or has that changed somehow? I guess I can see the legitimacy of reading a non-biased book about his background if one exists. But it does smack of putting the man before the message, does it not?
The activity guide suggests that teachers ask students questions to get them thinking, such as…
- Who is the President of the United States?
- What do you think it takes to be president?
- Why is it important that we listen to the president and other elected officials, like the mayor, senators, members of congress, or the governor? Why is what they say important?
Those three innocent-seeming questions are actually teeming with an underlying belief that the government is supreme and is separate from and above, rather than of, the people. The president and other elected officials are supposed to answer to the people! They are supposed to represent us — but the tone of this question implies that their words are important and are not to be questioned.
During the Speech
Teachers are encouraged to get students to take notes in various forms. This is a great idea and is one that I used liberally during last year’s presidential debates. Note taking is a great skill. However, the activity guide again assumes that the government (Obama) is supreme through these questions:
- What is the president trying to tell me?
- What is the president asking me to do?
- What specific job is he asking me to do?
- Is he asking anything of anyone else?
Makes me wonder just what it is that he will be suggesting. If he is asking students to work hard, take personal responsibility, and cultivate a love of learning, then yahoo! I totally agree! But I do believe his speech may overstep those general bounds based on subsequent questions in the activity guide.
After the Speech
Teachers are encouraged to have students share their notes and discuss the “main ideas from the speech, such as citizenship, personal responsibility, and civic duty.” I do believe that President Obama’s idea of civic duty might not line up with mine, and I do not think kindergarten children should even think along the lines of what their duties are to their state. To their families, yes. To the civic arena? No. Older students are able to debate ideas; kids this young are like sponges and do not necessarily have the intellectual capacity to sort through what their president tells them about civic duty. This *could* come close to the “i” word (indoctrination), depending on how it is handled. For example, if the president exhorts students to not give up, to keep moving forward despite adversity, to seek after lifelong learning for learning’s sake, to pursue all their endeavors with excellence– those are noble causes, and he can use the office of the presidency to encourage. If, however, he tells students that they all deserve equal shares of the American pie, that they all deserve equal grades for their equal efforts, then he is misleading them down a road called socialism.
Another GOOD part of these classroom plans is the suggestion that students write out their personal goals. These are good ideas, particularly as they pertain to education (not civic duty). For example, it would be completely appropriate for a second grader to set a goal to learn her addition facts by December 31st. It would also be okay for a third grader to decide that he will give up his seat on the city bus to the elderly for the next six months. But that kind of goal is best made under the guidance of his parents — not his president, and not his teacher.
The main editorial in today’s Dallas Morning News, Trumping Civic Virtue, accuses those right-wingers upset about the speech of irrationality and of a lack of patriotism.
Once upon a time, patriotism assumed a basic respect for America and its institutions….conservative writer P.J. O’Rourke expressed astonishment at the boycott initiative, admitting that he’s cautious about criticizing Obama around his children because he wants them to honor their president…Skepticism of those in power is a healthy instinct, necessary to a vigorous democracy (my note: we are a republic. Look it up!). Skepticism unhinged from reason becomes paranoia and undermines the rational foundations upon which democratic self-governments depends.”
Paranoia? Undermining the rational foundations of our existence as a nation? Those are serious charges against me: an American and professional educator and writer who knows that the words we choose convey much more persuasive material than people realize. I make it a point to let my own child know when I both disagree and agree with President Obama’s policies, and I instruct her to honor the office of the President as well as the president himself. God himself is the one who ultimately chooses our leaders, and we dishonor him when we dishonor our leaders. However, honoring someone does not mean suspending criticism. It means respectfully questioning and ultimately using our voting powers to elect representatives who truly represent us. If the act of asking questions about my government’s decisions make me paranoid, then our republic is in worse shape than I realized.
Ultimately it comes down to the word “public.” Teacher Cynthia Mostoller, whose 8th grade history class hosted President George H.W. Bush’s speech in 1991, put it this way:
Every president needs to talk to the kids and have a message and speak from the heart….These are public schools. They’re funded with public monies. It’s a public institution. (Presumably) he’s not advocating a position of ’support me in Afghanistan.”
Presumably he won’t advocate a position of supreme authority of the presidency, either.
The ripples from this speech should not be surprising to Christians who send their children to public schools. Public schools are, in fact, public. They are owned by the Big G, at least as far as Superintendent Tate and others like him are concerned.
And that is one of the biggest reasons why I homeschool.
My brother called me today and asked why it’s been over three weeks since my last blog. I actually did write a blog last week but ended up deleting it. I’ve been having some pain (sometimes severe) in my left hand which makes typing undesirable. But my daily Bible readings have given me endless ideas on scriptures I need to write about. Hopefully my hand pain will subside soon so that I can write more often again.
Last night I dreamed about idols. Not the American singers, but the kind that people used to make and worship. It’s not really a surprise — my readings in Judges show over and over how the Israelites absorbed foreign gods into their daily lives. One step at a time, they forgot who God really is and turned to worship statues.
But this morning’s reading of Judges 19 twisted my stomach.
Judges 19 tells the tale of what happens when a people have no form of government. In a nutshell, a Levite goes to Bethlehem to get a second wife. After several months, they argue, and the 2nd wife goes home to her family. The man follows his 2nd Wife and “speaks to her heart,” convincing her to return to his household. After a few days with her family, they begin a return journey home. As night falls, they reach the village of Gibeah, where there is no inn. An old man offers to let them stay in his home overnight.
Gibeah had some of the baddest Bad Guys around. The kind that demanded sex from anyone at any time. They pounded on the door of the house and demanded that the old man hand over the young man so they could have sex with him. Trying to protect his guest, the old man instead offers up his own virgin daughter as well as the 2nd Wife traveling with her husband.
What does this husband do? The one who followed her and convinced her by speaking to her heart? He grabbed hold of her and literally forced or pushed her out the door into the hands of those thugs.
The thugs had their way and raped her and abused her all night long. She staggered to the doorway of the old man’s house and fell down dead.
To show his shock and outrage at what had been done, the man cut his 2nd wife’s body into twelve pieces (ugh!) and sent them to the 12 tribes in order to call together a council to discuss what had happened.
To be sure, there is nothing under the sun that happens that has not already happened in some time or place. We hear stories like that one today and are deeply disturbed. What bothers me the most about this passage is that the husband forced his wife out the door. He threw her to the wolves. I just can’t fathom that kind of heartless self preservation. My own husband would protect me or die trying — and I would do the same for him.
Then the husband presented his case to the other tribes — conveniently leaving out the fact that they originally wanted HIM for sex and that he forced her out into their hands. This led to a huge war and almost a decimation of the tribe of Benjamin.
This kind of senseless violence is what happens when a people have no leaders.
In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.
Whatever seemed right in their own eyes. Doesn’t that clearly describe the way of our world today? Instead of there being a clear Right and Wrong, our political parties are paralyzed arguing over Left and Right. Our President does whatever he deems right, seemingly without regard to the Constitution (empathy matters more than rule of law) and without regard for the Bible as the only inspired word of God (his speech in Cairo referred to the Koran as “inspired.”) Society teachers our teenagers that truth is relative and that right and wrong are a matter of opinion.
I totally disagree. As for me and my house, we serve the Lord. We live under the Kingship of Jesus, and his commandment to us is to love one another. From 1 John 3:
We know what real love is because Jesus gave up his life for us. So we also ought to give up our lives for our brothers and sisters. If someone has enough money to live well and sees a brother or sisters in need but shows no compassion—how can God’s love be in that person?
Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other; let us show the truth by our actions. Our actions will show that we belong to the truth, so we will be confident when we stand before God. Even if we feel guilty, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything.
The Levite who thrust his wife out into the arms of the thugs did indeed show the truth of his love by his actions — his love for himself, that is. His actions did not demonstrate his love for his wife.
This is my prayer: that I will PROVE my love by my actions and not just by the words I write or speak. And the Lord is faithful to answer this prayer. If I am ever caught in a crisis where it is my life or the life of my friend or family member…please Lord, give me the strength to abandon myself without even a second thought. As Jesus did.
So said the sign my daughter and I carried at a Tea Party today. We joined with at least 500 others in all walks of life protesting the “Big Government” mentality of the current — and past — administration. There were people my age and younger, some with young children. There were also a few ladies and gentlemen who walked with the aid of canes and walkers, proudly waving American flags and signs. Some of my favorites said,
- Taxpayers are not ATMs.
- Socialism is fine until you run out of other people’s money.
- Next time, Read the Bill.
- TEA: Taxed Enough Already
Faces of many nationalities marched along the sidewalk with us. We weren’t members of one particular political party; in fact, we were, if anything, ANTI-political party. Republicans AND Democrats got our country into this financial mess. No politicians gave flowery speeches. We were just ordinary Americans taking an hour out of our day to protest our dismay over the direction OUR country is headed.
This was my first political protest, and it served as a valuable lesson in our homeschool journey. In our country, we have the freedom to peacefully assemble. We have a right to speak our minds. We are, according to one sign I saw, a
Silent Majority No Longer
No one dumped tea in the municipal fountain. Hopefully, when our elected leaders see the thousands of voters across America waving tea bags, they will remember their REAL employer: we the people. This is a wake-up call, Congress. Stop the wild spending. Balance the budget. Make getting us out of debt a priority. Or else forfeit your right to represent us. Because instead of dumping tea in the harbor, we’ll be like Donald Trump in the voting booth and say,
You’re Fired.
Not much time to post on this breezy Monday in almost-April…but this article in today’s Dallas Morning News certainly got my attention.
If you’re going to take Uncle Sam’s hand-out, you better be prepared to trade in your freedom to make your own decisions. Even though, technically, we ARE Uncle Sam, I certainly didn’t have anything to do with firing GM’s CEO. Did you?
If the company had been allowed to fail and enter bankruptcy proceedings (which it may still do despite over 16 billion big ones belonging to the taxpayers), the CEO probably would have been ousted anyway. It’s the principle of the thing. Since when does a sitting US President have any say over who is the head honcho at any private company?
Oh, wait a minute. GM isn’t a private company anymore.
The higher-ups at Ford were smart to just say NO to the bail-out funds. At least now they can make their own decisions on executive leadership and compensation.
For now.
This graphic appeared today on FoxNews.com:
May the Lord please grant us mercy! We reap what we sow (as we learn in Proverbs), and the borrower is servant to the lender. With so many restrictions on religious freedom in China, our country’s lender, I pray our lawmakers will not spend us into slavery.
But the only One who owns me personally…my heart, my soul, my mind, and my strength…is Jesus Christ.
I’m the kind of girl who doesn’t believe in coincidences. God has answered every one of my prayers…even a non-answer is an answer. It’s a “not yet,” or possibly a “never.” But, since He is God alone and I am not, I accept his authority in all areas of life. Even in the confusing ones.
At our community group meeting last week while we shared prayer requests, I told of how my parents had a very quick move from one part of the state to another. My grandmother is not in the best of health, so my parents decided, with much prayer, that they were being led to move closer to her. I remember telling my mom at the time that the sale of their house was under God’s authority, even in this weird collapsing economy. My husband thought they were nuts to put their house on the market in the dead of winter — their own realtor suggested that they wait until May before putting the house up for sale. But the sign went up in the front yard anyway.
Their house sold in one week.
I opened my big mouth and said it must have been a “God thing” for the house to sell so quickly. He knew their desire to honor their parents, and He provided a way to do so.
Kinda makes me feel all warm and fuzzy to see how God is taking care of my parents.
But there’s a flip side to this story. A man in our group has had a prayer request for a year that his parent’s home would sell. His parents died and left behind a mortgaged house. He and his brother are both struggling financially to keep paying for this empty house.
Is it a “God thing,” too, that this house has not sold?
As a woman of faith, I have to reluctantly say that somehow, someway, this struggle for them has a God-given purpose. Maybe God has already selected the family who will purchase that house and is preparing them financially. Maybe He wants to encourage all of us to trust him daily for our needs. It could be that this man and his brother and their families are closer to God than ever before because they have had to learn to rely on His provision each month. I don’t have the answer for why their house hasn’t sold. All I can offer up is faith that it will sell eventually in God’s perfect timing.
I’ve walked a bit in their shoes. Several years ago, my husband and I wanted to move to a different house in the same town. We put our house on the market and began planning the building of the new house. I picked out paint colors and wallpaper and carpet. We selected the brick and the trim and told the builder which trees we wanted him to keep. A flood of people began looking at our home…but we had no buyers. Weeks turned into months, and still our house would not sell. We changed realtors and lowered the price substantially. Still there were no buyers. The builder told us they had to release our contract and offer the house to someone else if we did not have our home sold in the next couple of weeks. I alternated between frantically pacing and calming prayers. I knew God was up to something.
Out of the blue, a man my husband had worked with previously called him up and offered him a new job halfway across the country. The opportunity was too good to pass up — more responsibility, more pay, and a chance to ‘move our cheese.’ We kept the house on the market and then did the unthinkable step in faith: we went ahead and moved.
The new company provided us with a furnished corporate apartment in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore. To say I was out of my comfort zone is a huge understatement. Here I was with a two-year-old and a very energetic Dalmation living on the sixth floor of a combination hotel/apartment complex on the harbor. I had no car. I had to take a taxi to the grocery store. Little old country girl hillbilly meets the big city — what a hoot! To top it all off, everyone took the “water taxi” to get wherever they needed to go. I get terribly seasick and hate boats of any kind. I rode the water taxi twice but managed to stay close to the apartment for anything else I needed. Every other night the fire alarm went off, and we had to grab the baby and the dog and head down six flights of stairs before we got the “all clear.”
But guess what? I did it! I proved to myself that I could live and function in a completely different environment…God showed me His presence in so many ways. I got to experience beautiful sunsets on the harbor, and I learned to be patient when waiting for God’s timing…because it was indeed perfect.
A couple of weeks after we were settled in the corporate apartment, we got the call that we finally had a buyer for our home. We lived in the apartment for a couple of months and then bought a home in the suburbs of Baltimore where life once again ruffled in familiar, comfortable ways.
Looking back, I remember the times of pacing, of wondering why God wasn’t allowing us to reach our dreams. It was because He had even bigger ones in store for us around the corner!
Writing about the “God things” in life gives me a different perspective on current events in our country. We have become a nation that turns to The Government to solve its problems rather than turning to God. Our first president, George Washington, understood the danger inherent in governments:
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
Yet our people today are appealing to this force, to this ‘fearful master,’ for their very livelihoods, and those of us who question them are labeled unpatriotic or uncaring.
Could it be a ‘God thing’ that our economy is now in the tank?
Could it be a ‘God thing’ that our children’s performance in public schools is going down?
Could it be a ‘God thing’ that so many of our children are filled with such angst and disregard for human life that they think nothing of taking the life of another who ‘disses’ them?
We reap what we sow. The flagging economy and other woes facing our society today is a direct result of the one thing government will never be able to solve: SIN. Sin is behind the fall of our nation, and if we continue to do nothing about it, we will continue on our current path. The anti-God movement is gaining momentum. I don’t know how to stop it, but I know George Washington might have been a prophet after God’s own heart when he said:
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
We the People who have elected…and kept electing…corrupt politicians…who have allowed ourselves to rely on The Government to cure our health, our finances, our bank accounts, our corporations, our whales, our Golden Cheeked Warblers, our mortgage woes — we are being disciplined. According to the writer of Hebrews, we should embrace this discipline and learn from it:
And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children?[d] He said,
“My child,[e] don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and don’t give up when he corrects you.
For the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”[f]As you endure this divine discipline, remember that God is treating you as his own children. Who ever heard of a child who is never disciplined by its father? If God doesn’t discipline you as he does all of his children, it means that you are illegitimate and are not really his children at all. Since we respected our earthly fathers who disciplined us, shouldn’t we submit even more to the discipline of the Father of our spirits, and live forever?
For our earthly fathers disciplined us for a few years, doing the best they knew how. But God’s discipline is always good for us, so that we might share in his holiness. No discipline is enjoyable while it is happening—it’s painful! But afterward there will be a peaceful harvest of right living for those who are trained in this way.
So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.
Today as I prepare to go to a homeschool mom’s meeting, I’ll try to remember those words from Hebrews 12. Take a new grip. Strengthen your knees. Mark out a straight path. Become strong. Because it’s all a ‘God thing.’
Do you believe God when His word says in Romans 8,
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. If God is for us, who can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Absolutely nothing going on in the secular world can separate us from the love of God in Jesus. Nothing. Not a stimulus package that no one had time to read before it was passed into law. Not an automobile bail-out. Those things are just symptoms of how needy our great country really is. We have people turning to Government when all they really need is Christ.
Oh, joy. President Obama said last night that the federal government is the ONLY institution with the wherewithal to pull our economy out of the pit (that’s a socialistic mantra if I’ve ever heard one). Today the Senate brainiacs in Washington passed the 850 Billion dollar “spendulous” package. And the markets jumped for joy, right?
Wrong. They plummeted. Again.
If the economic stimulus package put together is so good, why did the stock market drop?
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that we don’t HAVE 850 Billion dollars sitting around to be distributed. Our government is already so far in debt that it will take a lot of digging to get out from under the foreign lenders. We already have a crisis trying to fund the biggest Ponzi scheme ever initiated — social security.
Old Soloman was pretty wise when he said in Proverbs 22,
Direct your children onto the right path,
and when they are older, they will not leave it.Just as the rich rule the poor,
so the borrower is servant to the lender.Those who plant injustice will harvest disaster,
and their reign of terror will come to an end.
The reason the banks tanked is because the feds stuck their noses into the mortgage business. They FORCED banks to make risky loans to home buyers…and now we are all reaping what they sowed.
The question nobody is asking is this: who is holding our chains? To whom will our nation be a slave? With all of this borrowing, we’ll be a slave to someone. If we aren’t very careful, we might wake up one morning to find we have a new national language that isn’t English.
Dear Senator, Congressman, and President Obama:
The current economic stimulus bill is so large and cumbersome that it is ripe for corruption. It would be very easy for one of your colleagues to sneak in provisions that have absolutely nothing to do with stimulating the economy and everything to do with satisfying corporate campaign donors.
If, as President Obama suggested yesterday, our economy will not recover without a 1 trillion dollar injection (in addition to the 700 billion passed last fall), then my husband and I propose a different way to spend 1 trillion dollars.
Cut a $3,300 check to every man, woman and child; then sit back and watch the economy grow as families use this money in the marketplace. For some families, this would be the first time they had enough cash at one time to pay the down payment on a home. For others, it may be the way they can replace the car that is sitting up on blocks in the driveway. A few families might use the money for college, or for investments, or for starting small businesses. But the power to choose where the money is spent would be taken OUT of Washington’s hands and put back in the hands of We the People.
Or better yet, the federal government could suspend all payroll and income taxes for one year. The additional income families receive will most definitely be used to stimulate the economy.
As conservatives in favor of small government, we’d prefer it if there was NO stimulus package ever passed. Nothing fundamental has changed. We are still Americans. We are still as smart as we were before the stock market went under. We are innovative and have ingenuity. The last time I checked, we were still One Nation Under God, not One Nation Under Economic Stimulus Package.
Please talk some common sense into the nightmare that is brewing up there in Washington.
I haven’t posted much about politics since the election, but today I felt a need to stand up say that as a Christian who has what many in the liberal media would term “neo-conservative” views, I support President-elect Obama’s choice of Saddleback Church’s Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration.
For one thing, it is HIS inauguration. America did not elect
- the Atlantic website
- People for the American Way
- or the Human Rights campaign,
all of which have come out swinging and screaming about Obama’s choice in Warren. I did not vote for him, but I respect this decision by him to include Warren even though many far leftists think his views are as “radical” as I think theirs are. Obama’s spokeswoman Linda Douglass said,
“…it has always been his goal to find common ground with people with whom you may disagree on some issues.”
I have to give him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps we are seeing evidence that yes, indeed, the Lord of all creation IS in control. He does direct the heart of the king.
The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD;
he directs it like a watercourse wherever he pleases.All a man’s ways seem right to him,
but the LORD weighs the heart.To do what is right and just
is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:1-3
The enemy is crying foul and throwing ugly words at Obama for daring to extend a hand to a man they believe railroaded their attempt to legitimize sexual sin. I see this for what it is — spiritual warfare — and I see plainly that God used this presidential election to defeat the aims of the enemy with California’s Proposition 8. Many of the droves of people who flocked to the polls for their chance to vote for the first African-American President have conservative views about marriage. These same people who voted FOR Obama also voted FOR Proposition 8 which abolished same sex marriage. It was an outcome the far left — and the enemy — didn’t expect.
Just as they didn’t expect him to select an evangelical to deliver the invocation…
It just goes to show that no one…not those in the far left political persuasion or the far right or those in the middle…no human can know the mind of God or predict how he will accomplish his plans.
O righteous God,
who searches minds and hearts,
bring to an end the violence of the wicked
and make the righteous secure.
Psalm 7:9
