the excitement is palpable as so many Americans vote for the first time, and so many are motivated to campaign enthusiastically for candidates they favor. I have even laid out the clothes I plan to wear and packed food for tomorrow's all-day pot-luck at the County Courthouse. There I expect to be verifying and counting ballots from 8 a.m. to who-knows-what-hour.
What a privilege to be an American citizen! And what will tomorrow bring?
My freely-chosen, Judeo-Christian worldview informs me that "The king's (read: authority's or even electorate's) heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes." (Proverbs 21:1) I am informed (with Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar) "that the most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomsoever he will..."
God knows how this electiion will go -- local, state, and federal. There will be elation and disappointment. My prayers have been daily that the candidates -- all of them -- be well and safeguarded from harm. My prayer tonight for this nation is that we see a peaceful transfer of government offices to those newly elected...that no angry outbursts or celebratory mahem mar the outcomes.
We choose. It is part of being created in God's own image with abilities to feel the range of emotions, to communicate, think, design and invent. He generally allows us to choose freely. May we also choose wisely.
Lord, may You accomplish purposes of Your own in those elected tomorrow. In any contest where the winner is not immediately clear, give us patience. Your will, whether permissive or direct, be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
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