Monday, November 03, 2008:

On Thursday August 28th Presidential Elect nominee Barack Obama stepped out onto the stage at Invesco Field at Mile High to a throng of 80,000 people to deliver a speech of the ages. He was to address his audience like the Messiah leading his flock out of the desert and into the Promised Land. As such, I had a chance to read a passage written in my daily reader of Forward Day By Day to see what the Lord had in store for us and as usual he delivered.  The passage was from John 7:14-36 “He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.” Finding that politician who speaks the truth to us all is important, however it is more important of the character of the one speaking because truth is conveyed and manifested by character than by ones words. One can speak the truth to his flock while living a lie. We need to listen to their words but when deciding what leader we should follow we need to look past the rhetoric and judge them by their character. Don’t pay attention so much as to what they say, however look at who they are. To whom and to what glory do these politicians seek? Are they the type that wear their authority on their lapel and shout their platitudes and thoughts around like a neon sign with their name on it? Or does their manner of living and those that are associated with them point beyond themselves toward God? Is Mr. Obama living a lie or does his character prove worthy to lead this country forward? On Wednesday October the 15th the night of the last Presidential debates, I again read my daily lesson from our Lord and this one came from Luke 9:1-17, it said, “But he said to them, You give them something to eat.” Here our disciples wondered how they were going to feed so many with so little to eat, for they only had five loaves and two fishes. The disciples wanted an easy solution to their dilemma by having Jesus to send the crowds away. However he put the responsibility back onto the disciples by telling them “You give them something to eat.” When you look at this from the respective sides of our choices of Presidential nominees you notice that Mr. Obama wants government to be the solution to most of our problems and that he will take from one class and redistribute their abundance to those who have less. Instead of being the eternal optimist that Jesus ask us to be, he becomes a pessimist who wants us all to be dependant on government instead of trusting in God and in ones ability to be productive and to be able to provide for not only themselves but to others as well. The choices are clear in this election it is up to each individual to decide whether he or she wants more government intrusion and meddling in their lives or do they want less government that works for them in ways that are more optimist than pessimist. Once again the American people will get what they vote for, be careful in how you choose.