Election Direction©

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Election Direction©

A Limerick A Day To Keep You On Your Way©

There once was a historical election.

Exhausting the people with constant flexion.

Left, Right.

Fight, Fight.

All that was needed was Godly direction.

God loves to help his creation. The only prerequisite is to ask. AND that so often is the last thing we do.  Our nation has been heading in the wrong direction for the last several generations. It was easy, not right, but easy to get comfortable with believing it would be just fine to let everyone live how they wanted.  After all, isn’t that the freedom of America?

Is it?

Without God, the sinfulness of human nature grows steadily. The Word tells us our hearts are deceitful.  Jeremiah 17:9-10 (KJV) says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.”

What has been the fruit of our doings?

We know by now one of our great mistakes was to take the bible truths out of the public school. I can hear you now saying separation of church and government. But that’s how the government wormed its way into the public schools to the insanity we have today. Once we had two generations moving away from God’s directions for living we produced minds left to be easily manipulated into what was called situational ethics. It got so far left we had laws saying boys could go in the girls’ bathrooms, play girls’ sports, and become girls with surgery and hormones (and of course the other way around). It’s mankind thinking whatever they feel is right in their own eyes.

The same thing happened in The Book of Judges.

 Men did what they thought was right in their own eyes. The Lord desired men to freely worship Him and live according to His ways. But because our propensity is to unrighteousness and lawlessness He gave the people judges. Eventually, many judges became corrupt so the people cried for a king. This displeased God because He is King. If the people had just said all we want is You, God, understanding that to live under God’s rule would have been freer and more prosperous than any earthly King’s reign, they would have saved themselves much heartache. They cried out until  God relented and gave them what they wanted. The first king, King David, walked in God’s ways and Israel was blessed. His son Solomon also blessed the people because he walked in God’s ways except he married a woman who worshipped false gods.

The one-degree separation of the wrong direction.

And after that, every generation would experience more evil kings than good kings. The one-degree separation became wider and wider. Wars, plagues, slavery, judgments, and eventually destruction. The people would become desperate and realize they left God. They would repent and God would always show up.

We are no different than the people of ancient days. In America’s beginning days, God was part of everything. There was (and is) no separation of church and state. God was part of the government for wisdom and decisions. The call for separation was not from God in governmental affairs but rather in the government staying out of your personal decision on how to worship Him that would not be controlled by the government.

The issue of separation has contributed to this great flexion. Flexion in this sense is the deviation from a straight or normal course.

If you were living in the crisis of WWII you may remember how the country came together to fight against the evils of communism.  Prayer and belief in God weren’t anything abnormal. The President was not condemned when he asked the people to pray on D-Day. Victory came and unified the people. America felt safe and proud again despite the next twenty years of the Cold War. Our prosperity as a country increased dramatically even though we would still face many issues now within our borders.

Some of these were Civil Rights, Women’s Rights, Abortion Rights, Marriage Rights, Disability Rights,  and 1^st and 2^nd Amendment Rights. I was young when Martin Luther King was assassinated but clearly remember the rights of women wanting the same pay as men because that one specifically affected me in my professional career. I had no problem if other women wanted to abort their babies even if I would not do so. I didn’t care also if men wanted to marry men or women women. It wasn’t affecting me. UNTIL…God got a hold of my eyes.

I was living in my own “what is right in our own eyes” thinking. There was no thought of how it may affect the next generation.  

The problem is we all have a right and left eye. They aren’t meant to be separated so that each eye can go its own way.  The Bible tells us to have a single eye.  Matthew 6:22 says, “The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.” To have this single eye means if I follow God He will lead in one direction, which is always the right direction. And it usually means a change in how I think.

This historical election became known as the Right and the Left when it came to voting. It was so far from the straight, normal course of how elections should go.  I pray America remembers the amount of prayer it took to begin to correct itself to biblical values taking their place again. The fight to stay right will not end just because the election is over. The fight to stay right is won when our eye is focused completely on God in one direction. If not we will revert to what we feel right in our own eyes, being left to once again head in the wrong direction.

 

2 Peter 1:10 KJV

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.

 

Pray this prayer with me.

Dear God,

We thank You for hearing our desperate cries to save our nation from evil’s corruption and tyranny. You know the heart of men and it’s a propensity towards evil. Cleanse us, heal us, keep us forever fighting to see evil defeated. Thank You.  In Jesus Name.  Amen.

Written by Paula Ann Kochanek

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