GET READY FOR ELECTION DAY – TUESDAY NOV. 2

We should not be asking the Lord simply to bail us out when we vote. We need to also ask God to change the hearts of America, and then restore some semblance of sanity to our country. However, we need a change of heart, a restoration spiritually, before we can have a reprieve of sanity. We are being judged as a nation and only Christ, living in the hearts of our people, can save us as a country.    I personally do not believe we deserve God's grace and mercy. Often only a judgment can restore a nation. Sin is tenacious and we are told in Scripture that judgment is certain. Solomon said: "What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted" (Eccl. 1:15), and, "Consider the work of God, for who is able to straighten what He has bent? In the day of prosperity be happy, but in the day of adversity consider—God has made the one as well as the other so that man may not discover anything that will be after him" (7:13-14).    On these verses the Rabbis write:    "Solomon sees many things in human society which are 'crooked,' but how they are to be 'made straight' baffles him; similarly he detects so many deficiencies that they cannot be numbered." The most important thing to do is "to reflect upon God's methods, seek to discover how we may rule our lives in accordance with the Divine will. ... Whatever God has ordained is immutable, and it is futile for man to think of 'rectifying' His work." –Dr. Mal Couch (9/10)