We have certainly endured a brutal election season. No matter who wins, our country is a deeply divided nation ideologically and that didn’t change in the last couple of weeks and it won’t change after the election today. The winners will win an election, but they will not win the union Whoever wins will take an oath of office but will likely not know what an oath is or what it means to take an oath.
There is already great concern and fear for the future of our country. From a constitutional crisis should we inaugurate someone who is under indictment, to the rhetoric of nuclear war should we inaugurate a scoundrel, we should not be surprised at the outcome. Three institutions in particular have given us Donald and Hillary. These three, government, the media and academia, have led us far from God and His precepts for the definitions of good and evil, right and wrong.
Government suppression of religious freedoms in favor of someone else’s is well-documented and that is growing worse with each passing day. You can’t create freedoms without limiting someone else’s. It’s not like just printing more money. Suppressing Christianity is already on Hillary’s plate. Persecution of our fellow Christian businessmen is already happening and clergy no longer prepare their sermons without fear of repercussion.
The media makes a firestorm of any prominent person who is openly spiritual. Just ask Tim Tebow. I mean, think about it. What’s more interesting and lucrative to report than a story about our fears (spelled “Donald Trump”)? They’re not going to make as much money reporting a story on what God says about fear and how to “fear not.”
Our country is not served well by the secular academic world. As someone who teaches in university now after my Air Force career, I have seen too many of my colleagues that are openly hostile, if not willfully negligent, to include matters spiritual in any of their lesson plans, debates, research or writings. It’s their responsibility to present all sides of a debate and all ideas for consideration and not dismiss any of them outright. The dialectic, something akin to our version of a physician’s Hippocratic Oath, demands it. And yet, the students they teach don’t even know or recognize how these professors are failing them.
Why have we allowed this to happen? Blame it on Donald and Hillary, and Bill and Barack. But we’ve allowed ourselves to become informed by a government and an academy and a media that have god-less agendas. And, we have ignored God’s way of informing us. Of course, none of this has surprised Him:
“Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? When times are good, be happy; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made the one as well as the other.” — Ecclesiastes 7:13 – 14
We should turn to Him and submit ourselves, our country, its leaders, and these three institutions to His ways and, in prayer, ask for His forgiveness. After all, the season is upon us soon when we should pay special attention to His declaration for us: “Fear not.”