1 Samuel 8 - November 5, 2008

But when they said, "Give us a king to lead us," this displeased Samuel; so he prayed to the LORD. And the LORD told him: "Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.

As they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you. Now listen to them; but warn them solemnly and let them know what the king who will reign over them will do.

So Samuel told all the words of the LORD to the people who asked him for a king. And he said, “This will be the behavior of the king who will reign over you:

He will take your sons and appoint them for his own chariots and to be his horsemen, and some will run before his chariots.¹

He will appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.²

And he will take the best of your fields, your vineyards, and your olive groves, and give them to his servants.⁴

He will take a tenth of your grain and your vintage, and give it to his officers and servants.⁵

And he will take your male servants, your female servants, your finest young men, and your donkeys, and put them to his work.⁶

And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day.”

Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, “No, but we will have a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations⁸, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.” And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he repeated them in the hearing of the LORD. So the LORD said to Samuel, “Heed their voice, and make them a king.”

I agree that the outcome of the election has been in God’s hands and the result has shown that He knows that America has turned from Him.
In the past few months I have listened to people complaining how bad things are (gas, heating, medical care, food cost, the wars and on and on)
Here is a news flash. It is not going ot be very long before we look back to October 2008 and wish things we that good again.
If you thought we had reached rock bottom, hold on because the fall is a HELL of a lot longer then you imagined.
Until we become a Nation that honors God above men (as in Obama)this is our lot.
2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land
This we have not done and I do not see enough of us doing so for many years to come.

This is the exact passage that our Pastor closed his Thursday night Bible study with last week.

I just keep repeating over and over that "God is in control" and "Open the Eyes of My Heart Lord"...

Surprisingly, I'm not angry or stressed at all today. That shows me that my spiritual growth has matured beyond what I thought. So, one very good thing came out of this election. :) God Bless America!

An earlier thread today noted that God seems to have “removed His hand from us.” I don’t disagree with that except to note that He already did, some time back. This was our last chance, as a nation, to have His favor return to us. Christians in general have only themselves to blame, settling for treading water all these years in the Republican party, which is moving more and more to the left, even - though more slowly - away from pro-life causes, where support from the RNC has been little more than lip-service for years.

They’ve abandoned their base, and are putting forth very mediocre candidates like McCain, who have more support with some Democrats than true conservative Christians. And we’ve let them do it. Because we were more interested in merely putting in “anybody” who could at least mouth pro-life sentiments, just to avoid allowing pro-death Dems to simply walk in unopposed. We should have been more active within our own ranks maintaining - and increasing - an overall Christian worldview in this country, which would reap its own political rewards. This has never been done. A naive trust in the RNC was left to substitute, and it has yielded a very poor harvest.

I’ve been saying this for years, and have been called everything you can think of and more because of it. But I am no traitor! The Republicans have abandoned me and my own Christ-centered values; I have not abandoned them. On a national level, I will never even consider voting Republican again. I will work to help foster a viable new party that will maintain and (at least eventually) increase its voter support in as short a timespan as possible. I might still vote for some Republicans at more local levels, but, nationally, they cannot get it done. Fostering a new party cannot do any worse.

We are headed into Night. And, again, we Christians, of all types, have brought this on ourselves.

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