This comes down to a basic question of faith - how much are we supposed to do as opposed to what God does. The farmer plants seed in the ground, waters it and tends to his plants until it is harvest time. That is the farmers responsibility. He doesn’t just pray to God to bring him a bountiful miraculous harvest without doing any work. If God did everything for us then we would do nothing for ourselves and we would not grow. We are supposed to take care of those things that are our responsibility such as tending to our families, communities and government, and God takes care of those things that are beyond our powers.
God didn’t invent ‘Government.’ Man did. No wonder it’s so screwed up!
God gave us some very specific instructions on how we are to lead our lives. We’ve ignored Him time and again in our personal and public lives.
I don’t think God will ultimately abandon us; he saved one special family from The Great Flood to weed out the trash and start us out anew. :)
Maybe 0bama is our flood? Of one thing I’m certain; there WILL be blood in the streets on ‘his watch.’
And I’m just speculating; I don’t pretend for one New York Minute that I know what God has in store for us...other than an awesome Afterlife whether ours comes in a natural-span human lifetime or suddenly due to the idiots in charge in Washington today.
Man, on the other hand, has been pretty predictable since Day One in the Garden.