“When Obama was elected and I wondered why God allowed it.”
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We all have the God-given right of free will, and He does not control which candidate for whom we here on earth will vote.
He gave us the free will to choose, knowing that oft times a person may choose unwisely, or at times may even choose to sin. We have that God given freedom.
I’m coming in “late” to this discussion, but I have wondered the same thing and the answer I usually come up with is as follows...
Parents sometimes have to let their children fail, so that they can learn the real truths that aren’t evident to them before that learning experience.
In the case of the folks residing here in these United States - along with Canedawg’s excellent observation - there is probably a high likelihood of God deciding that we needed a “hard lesson”... With the threat of Islam growing rapidly here at home even, perhaps we needed someone like Obama to get people out of their chairs and take a stand — perhaps now to shake out the bad seeds within the government that would prevent us from winning a future battle that is even more dangerous (like fighting against the Muslims and their plans for conquering us with sharia law which is wholly unconstitutional).
There are probably a million and one or more scenarios I can think of where this bit of “bad” is needed to realize richer positive things in the future. We are certainly a nation full of people who take things for granted - a nation full of those who expect something for nothing... God is perhaps NOT sparing the rod at this time?
Unlike some I’ve heard talking here and elsewhere that think God has ‘’left” this country — i say NEVER, because of His promise to us. The promise God made was to us as individual souls, and not to any nation. Hold firm in faith of Him, and with that we can weather any storm — even the really bad ones like having this tyrannical Marxist/Muslim in the White House.
I don’t think Carter did as bad a job as Obama, obviously — but, if Carter got us to Reagan, I can’t wait to see who will rise up and take the reins.