Wow, the last two weeks in the United States have been disappointing. When I heard that Sleepy Joe was being called, “The President-Elect” I was really upset. So many Christian people had prophesized on TV and other places that Donald Trump was going to win. I had my hopes and expectations up. How could these people have gotten a “word from the Lord” and then it all be wrong? How could the Democratic convention gone out of its way to not mention God and they win? How could Donald Trump bless Israel like he did and not be blessed with a second term? To tell the truth, I am still not over it and still hoping that something will happen at the last minute. Maybe it will. Maybe the Lord has something that He wants us to see. Meanwhile, it is not like I am attacking people in the street, burning buildings down, or looting stores. That is what the Left does and they seem to have been rewarded for that behavior.

I had to really stop and think and pray. I was very disappointed. I asked the Lord, ‘what are you trying to say by this??? How can this be happening?’ I started to recall how hopeless God’s people have been in many situations in history. I thought of the Holocaust. I thought of Christians living under Nero. I thought of Christians living today in countries like China and in the Middle East. I thought of how Jeremiah continually asked the Lord…(Jeremiah 12)

Yet I would speak with You about your justice.
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
    Why do all the treacherous thrive?
² You planted them, so they have taken root.
    They are growing, bearing fruit.
    You are near in their mouth,
        yet far from their mind.

Now, I am not judging Joe Biden’s faith. I do not pretend to know what is in his heart. And I am not going to go down the list of why I believe he is going to be an awful president or how I think his followers are going to try to build an evil, godless America. I am not saying that people of Judeo-Christian values are going to be put in camps or burned at the stake under Biden. We probably will be put in jail again like Kim Davis was, though

The answer that I had to reach out to, in the midst of my anxiety, was to faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the trust that the Lord is working, even though He is unseen. I want to have bigger, stronger faith. Lord help my unbelief! I want to be like the unknown Jewish person in the concentration camp in Cologne who wrote on his wall the following poem (https://sairyd.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/a-poem-of-belief-by-a-jewish-prisoner-in-a-nazi-concentration-camp/) :

“I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining
And I believe in love,
even when there’s no one there.
And I believe in God,
even when he is silent.

Again, I am not saying that Sleepy Joe Biden will put Jews and Christians in concentration camps and I am not comparing the Democrats to the Nazi party. That would be uncouth. However, I am saying that it is easy to have one’s faith shaken in the midst of such disappointments. Maybe even Mr. Trump himself is shaken. Yet such disappointments are also catalysts to build faith and to strengthen the faith we have. Thankfully, because of my faith I am not in one, yet.

1 Corthinians 16:13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

—————————————————-W.