For many Trump supporters, this whole election is about one person, one personality.
Let me share these thoughts (from
Steve Deace) that he had on his wall today:
Our culture is in systemic collapse. All the signs are there.
Shooting tragedies seemingly almost daily now. Videos of dead baby parts peddled like wares, and most of us cast a jaundiced eye. :nometalk: An economy propped up by fiat currency and bubbles. An unsustainable debt load. A rapidly declining birth rate. Most of our young adult men are single and purposefully prolonging their adolescence, rather than making their mark on the world.
A military turned into a social experimentation control group. A morally incoherent foreign policy.
Record amounts of Americans on anti-depressants and also battling obesity. Students in third world countries have higher academic achievement in key subjects.
Church attendance imploding. Our national sovereignty eroding.
The list goes on, but by now you get the point.
This election, as it currently stands, is incapable of producing a result that will stem this tide.
In fact, I was just telling a good friend of mine yesterday we may be currently incapable as a people of electing such a person anyway. Most of what they would say to us about our own way of life would seem foreign. And we always fear what we don't understand.
There are serious people of conscience I know deeply divided about this election. Heck, I'm deeply divided about it. Constantly going back and forth in my own mind between no way we can afford X for four years,
and no way I can publicly defend and advocate for Y at the same time.
For clarity's sake, maybe this is the point.
Maybe providence is showing us our problems are far more systemic than one, flawed election. Maybe we needed such an election to show us the system we fight so much for and over cannot save us. Only a firm reliance on divine providence can.
Maybe we needed to see people reveal their true character, rather than risking those people betraying us when we actually had a chance later.
Maybe we needed to see all that we've falsely placed our hopes stripped bare before our eyes to be reminded where our hope truly is.
So here's my big idea today.
Let's commit to praying for revival in our marriages, families, and culture every time we think about politics. Let's commit to making this prayer as much a part of our routine as we do lamenting the state of things, or considering what to do about it.
Perhaps this is something we can all agree on, even if we all can't agree on what to do in this election.
For regardless of what happens in November, this nation will perish without revival nonetheless.
I'm going to stop and pray right after I click to publish this.
