I am more disheartened following this election than I have ever been.  It has nothing (at least, not directly) to do with who won or who lost.  Rather, it is where we are and how we got here.

Do we realize how many key races were won over the “right” to slaughter our children unimpeded?  We have claimed for years now that Allah and YHWH are the same.   (I cringe just typing that, even in this context.)  We accept Obama’s claim to be Christian, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, and consider Romney, a cultist, “likeminded.” We celebrate Ramadan in the White House, while supporting Israel’s enemies.  We fight for the freedom not only to honor perverted relationships, but to openly flaunt them in the streets.  The covenant of marriage is easier to break than any standard legal contract – and is broken, easily and often.  We have honored and supported the rich (ahem…Monsanto) who are preying on the poor.

Natural disasters hit, and the Church loudly proclaims that God does not send storms as judgment.  (I’m not saying what is or what isn’t, but the Bible most clearly says He can and does.)  Instead of considering that if it were judgment, we might have something for which to repent, we say that “God is love,” with a context that implies that we equate “love” with “being nice.”

And what was the Church’s idea of a solution to all this?  In our own power, in our own strength, try to outnumber the world and vote in a candidate who is “not quite as bad” as the other major option.

But we can’t do it.  It is not a numbers game.  If it were, we could count on failing, regardless.  The righteous have always been a remnant, not a majority.  We’re like Gideon.  There are not enough of us to win this war.  To pretend there are, and try to do it the world’s way will fail miserably.  We are better off doing without those who are fearful and taking our new, even smaller minority and standing for truth and trusting God.  “If God is for us, who can be against us?”  But if God is not for us?  Well, I just don’t want to be in that camp.

If we are focused on Him, on truth, and on righteousness, no matter the cost, He will fight for us!  And He is always enough.

But (and here is where I am disheartened) God does not fight for those who do not fight for Him.  Okay, the exact wording of that may or may not be precisely biblical, but you get the point.  When we are wishy-washy, when we “go with the flow,” or when we try to accomplish things through our own strength or worldly wisdom, He leaves us to our devices.  Or worse, to judgment.  (Read your Old Testament and see what God had other nations come in and do to Israel.  America’s right on course for much of the same.)

Of Israel, He had this to say (emphasis added):

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Son of man, say to her: ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’ The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. Her princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy people, and to get dishonest gain. Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, seeing false visions, and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken. The people of the land have used oppressions, committed robbery, and mistreated the poor and needy; and they wrongfully oppress the stranger. So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord God.

I don’t know about you, but I find this frighteningly similar to America today.  Are we standing in the gap?  Or is that just too much effort?  Too “costly”?

Are we willing to be Gideons?  Are we willing to send the naysayers home and just stand and trust God, even if what He’s telling doesn’t make sense?

‘Cause if we don’t, America has no hope.  God will find no one standing in the gap, and He will consume us with His wrath and indignation, and the consequences of our own deeds.

(Quote is from Ezekiel 22.)