I Prayed, I Voted: Now We See What Happens

The 2008 American presidential election didn't come out the way I'd have liked. But, that happens sometimes.



I prayed; studied; voted. Those prayers weren't for McCain to win, or Obama to lose. The family prayers were for the right leaders to be picked in the election. I really do not understand how tonight's election results constitute the right leaders being picked.

But, as Job discovered, there's not much point in trying to get a complete explanation from God. I don't think it's because God is being secretive: I think it's because human beings don't have the capacity to understand. We're finite, God isn't.

I did a little digging, and came up with these thoughts:

• God is all-powerful, but his power is not arbitrary (271)
• Creation is being completed - it is "in a state of journeying" toward perfection, but isn't there yet (302)
• "...The sacred books powerfully affirm God's absolute sovereignty over the course of events: 'Our God is in the heavens; he does whatever he pleases.'..." (303")

Being the sort of person I am, the way I tend to put these sublime ideas is -

God is large and in charge: and I have to assume He knows what He's doing.

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