Love your enemies

Matthew 5:44

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

I'm trying to love Obama. He won the election. He is no doubt on track to derail over 200 years of freedom and turn the United States of America into a fetid quagmire of socialism, putting us squarely on the same hopelessly twisted railroad tracks that sent Great Britain from the reigning world power to the dustbin of history's also-rans.

And yet, he is the President-Elect.

The night of the election, God gave me a peace like I have not had in a long, long time. I felt His assurance that although hard times are ahead, He (Jesus, not Obama) is still in charge. God is still in charge!

Things could be worse. We could be living in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, China, or well, pretty much any other nation besides the USA. Even if the Democrats get their dreaded super-majority, their most Marxist fantasies would not match what already exists around the world in some places. We truly are in a blessed nation. It may be we are facing a period of judgment, if so, I pray for God's grace to rest upon us and carry us through it.

So, although I suspect Barrack Obama will prove to be the only Marxist President in US history, I do pray that instead he gets a seriously unexpected patriotic streak and doesn't drive the bus of freedom off the cliff of socialism. His acceptance speech was truly good, I pray the man lives up to it. I urge all believers to pray for our President-Elect, and I do mean that. I wish him the best (just not best enough to win another four years!)