We could do worse.
I’m frankly wishing that Cruz could actually uncork his Christianity... yes I mean it. He’s uncorked his religion. But that isn’t the same thing.
Christianity would blow by the worldly Trump like a rocket ship past a car. There would be NO mistake about what has happened. Unfortunately we’ve never really seen this happen in American history. A lot of religious presidents, no really Christian one. Trump might be the closest thing to truth in packaging, with respect to spiritual things, that we’ve had.
The thing is... the more I think about American history, the more I think there was an ersatz side to its Christianity that rendered the real side mostly into shadow.
I know I sound like a lot of screaming liberals... but the more I think about screaming liberals, the more I realize that if they had really met Jesus, most of them wouldn’t be screaming like that. They might be weeping in gratitude, though.
It’s the grace of the Lord that fills in the myriad holes that our sins otherwise create, and often we aren’t even aware of that unless we are someone like St. Francis, or John Newton, who can sing about “Amazing grace, that saved a wretch like me.”
But the patch of unshrunk cloth (one that isn’t of a kind with what it would patch) is one that looks okay for a while then comes loose. Usually at the worst time, too.
Uncorking the actual Christianity (getting out the proper patches) is what America needs to see, and it hasn’t seen it.
If Cruz won’t step up to that plate, then maybe God has something like a Trump presidency (so we at least get competent worldly management) in tandem with a revival at a lay level, on the plans. Just sayin’.