"In politics, as with evangelism, God simply calls us to be faithful to the message and the task. The results are in His providential hands.  When history is behind us, we rest in His sovereign plan.  We do our best to promote the virtuous and expose evil and deception.  We work hard to elect the most principled candidates.  We steward our citizenship by educating ourselves and others and voting with the best possible information we can find.  But once we have discharged our responsibility, we can be satisfied and feel God’s pleasure in the fact that we were simply faithful.

We should sense God’s highest satisfaction in knowing that we were merely faithful to do our part-- irrespective of the outcome.

This understanding aligns us with an eternal perspective.  It protects us from burn out and it gives us greater endurance and resilience.  Most importantly it postures us to humble ourselves before the Creator of history itself to recognize that we can only see in part and know in part and that ultimately His ways are higher, deeper and wiser than our ways.

My favorite historical place to visit in Washington, D.C. is the Arlington National Cemetery.  To walk quietly at the feet of over a quarter of a million gravestones representing American soldiers from the Civil War to Iraq can be a profound experience.  Looking across what appears to be an endless sea of mostly young men and women, who have died so that I might live with freedom, is a sobering if not a completely transforming experience.  Suddenly, everything comes into perspective.  In that moment, I recommit myself with greater tenacity and courage to what I am called to do and realize that any disappointment or discouragement I have experienced is merely light and momentary compared to those who have paid the ultimate price.

“We do nothing. God does everything.  All glory must be returned to Him.  God has not called me to be successful.  He called me to be faithful."  Would that we could all have this same steady and eternal perspective when we face the wins and losses of life." MT

I don't know who MT is or the route this took to my inbox but I find that it mirrors my own thoughts to a great degree.

However, I fear what is in store for our nation when clearly the majority of the electorate and the leaders selected are challenging God. Their platform, the executive orders issued, and the more than 26 enforcement czars already anointed by the man who would be King represent an attempt to destroy the framework of the American political system by circumventing the limitations on the executive powers under the Constitution.

They should beware for the Spirit of America cannot be bought or suppressed for no man can tell another what to think or what to believe.

The conflagration of the ensuing events is in the Hand of God! My prayer is that He will bless the remnant of His people as He did the founding fathers of our nation.  I pray that we will teach our children about the principles and the character of a society based on a Christian foundation.

President Kennedy, quoting Dante, once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. We are in the greatest crisis the nation has ever faced.

The future of America hangs in the balance and it shall come about, if we will not obey the Lord our God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which He has charged us with, that a multitude of curses shall come upon us and overtake our nation.

This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of God’s law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to destruction and tyranny.

America is and always has been one nation under God for the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God, by His Grace alone.