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DeeAnnBailey -> RE: Dee's Delights and Delusions (11/3/2008 9:37:27 PM)
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Tonight I'm thinking and many folks will tell you that is dangerous. I live in the house I grew up in. Currently we have 4 generations living here, I built on to the back of my parents home a few years ago when my dad gave us a scare. So my parents, my daughter, my granddaughter and I live in the house we moved to when I was 12.
I looked around today and I realized how much things have changed since I moved here. We have some of the same neighbors, actually we have their children in the homes where their parents lived. But we have many other homes than we had then. When we first moved here I could leave home in the mornings during the summer to play with friends and no one was concerned if I didn't come home for hours, not because they were bad parents but because all the kids were gone, exploring the woods, riding our bikes, playing all over the area. Now if you have a child that gets out of your site you worry. How sad that my granddaughter will never know the freedom to get on her bike and ride for miles. We live in a good neighborhood with good neighbors but within 2 miles of our home are 7 convicted sexual predators. Two years ago a drug ring was busted several blocks from my house. We don't live in a bad section of town or ghetto area. We live in a nice home in a fine neighborhood, one block from an elementary school and 3 blocks from 1 church with 2 others within half a mile. But the things that used to belong 'in the bad areas' have moved to our streets.
I remember when I was in elementary school, there were folks all up in arms that someone was trying to take prayer and Bible reading out of the schools. Most folks just said 'they are fanatics, there is no way that will happen' so they didn't get involved. Because they didn't get involved, our school systems have lost many of the core values that made our country great for so many years.
I remember vaguely when Roe vs Wade was being decided, first most folks were outraged but they truly believed the Supreme Court would uphold the Christian values our country was built on. When they didn't, they were again outraged but 'what could they do?' We lost the right to protect the most innocent. We decided that actions would have consequences but instead of the guilty paying the innocent would.
I remember of the years seeing vigils being held outside of prisons protesting the death penalty yet many of those same people decried those that protest abortion. Where does that logic come from? The innocent child is fair game but a mass murderer should be protected? We lost the ability to under the most basic teachings of the Bible.
I remember many elections where we thought 'oh so-n-so must win' and if they didn't we were crushed and if they did we were estatic. But as I sit here and contemplate tomorrow's election, I know we are truly in a battle.
Neither candidate for President is the one that I would have picked, had I had a choice. McCain-Palin have some issues that I don't agree with, they have some areas where I am concerned.
But when I look at what Obama stands for my heart crings because truly if he is elected I know my granddaughter will never enjoy so many of the things that I did or that her mother did. She will not enjoy the ability to live in a country where we are a Christian nation. Now every person that moved here from other countries, if they did it legally, they have every right to be here. But we are the only country that instead of those moving here accepting and respecting who we are, we are being asked, in some cases told, that we must accept them, we must change, we should learn their languages, we should accept and respect their religion yet they should not be asked the same for us. We are being told that a child can be aborted up until the moment of delivery and that's ok. That is one of the most immoral and destructive thoughts to be sold to folks today.
We are told that an alternate life style must be honored the same as marriage. When God decided that man should not be alone, He did not create another man, He created a WOMAN. That is who marriage is designed for. My granddaughter may well live in a country that declares her family as haters because we stand for what the Bible says. She could watch her pastor go to jail if he refused to compromise what the Word of God says.
I detest war, I wish we did not have to ever have it. But I've seen the pictures from the First Baptist Church of Baghdad. I've seen pictures of men studing the Bible in a country that had been denied religous and other freedoms for years. Hundreds have been saved since we declared war - how do we put a price on that? Losing family and friends is horrible in war but what about those who have heard the gospel that had never heard it before. How can anyone say that war is without merit when it freed people from the murderous clutches of a mad man and allowed many to learn of Jesus?
I've prayed and I've begged others to pray. I don't have all the answers, only God does. And regardless of how the election comes out tomorrow my God is still in control. I am so thankful for that! I pray that we see our country return to God, that we confess our sins, that we will remember that being a Christian isn't something we put in a corner for when it is convenient. I pray that we will remember and understand that if something goes against the Bible it doesn't matter how much we justify it, it is still wrong. I pray that we will realize that the same God who fed over 5,000 with a loaf and 2 fish can and will supply our needs, we do not have to lay our unborn children at the altar of financial gain to succeed.
Most of all I pray that my granddaughter will not have to live in fear if she claims the name of Jesus because the terrorist have managed to destroy us from within and they have taken our religious freedoms way.
If you still haven't voted and more importantly if you are not 100% sure of who you are voting for, please ask yourself 'if God were standing here and going to vote, would He vote for financial gain over morals? if He were standing at the voting booth, would he condone the murder of children? Would He vote for a man who would put judges in place that would strip Christians of every freedom they still have?'
You may rationalize, you may actually believe the answers that are given as to why a Christian would vote for Obama. But you cannot show me any scripture that would back that stand. On the reverse, there are multiple scriptures about murder, God's love for us from the moment we are conceived. May God allow us all to vote as He would have us do and to pray for our next President, whomever he may be.
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