I unashamedly confess to never being prouder — or more surprised — than I was Tuesday when voters overwhelmingly rejected four more soul-deadening years of evil.
I had all but given up on the grand American experiment in self-governance. But today, I am prouder than ever of its people, who unmistakably chose good over evil at the ballot box.
Before expounding further, however, I must warn against resting on our laurels. The same people who despise Donald Trump, who employed every devious means to destroy him, who even tried to kill him, are still with us. And, if anything, their rage is greater now. On Election Day America won perhaps its greatest battle since Midway. But the battle won, the war continues.
Nevertheless, I actually feel the pain of the leftists and the woke and the Marxist fellow travelers, who today agonize over the election results. As vote-counting began, I too was in the depths of depression, resigned to Kamala Harris defeating Donald Trump and all the horrors that were sure to follow.
It was excruciating, but I figured a holy God certainly must have had enough of our land, where 70 million babies have been murdered in the womb, where sexual depravity has been elevated to a faux constitutional right, where Marxist ideology has supplanted Christian morality. Where despotic tyrants run the government, oblivious to the true human rights they trample. Who am I to dispute God’s judgment against such evil?
God surely had seen enough, I grudgingly told myself. I braced for His judgment to arrive in the form of a Democratic Party landslide. I’d prayed for months for His mercy rather than His judgment. But I understood God is sovereign, and my meager desires aren’t about to change His mind. What he desires shall come to pass. And America circa 2024 certainly didn’t take Him by surprise. Just as certainly, we deserve His wrath.
As votes were counted, I truly already felt the pain. Then what God always had intended from all eternity past came to pass. Mercy for a nation of fallen sinners. Praise the Lord!
To God all the glory, for sure. But the Lord uses people to bring about worldly blessings, and on Tuesday last, He used 72 million of them to turn my feared Democrat landslide into an historic Republican rout, returning the wrongly persecuted Donald Trump to the White House, along with majority control of both houses of Congress.
My every prayer for the election was answered, save for California, which for some reason God chose to leave largely in Satan’s hands. But He’s sovereign, and His ways are not our ways. After all, He allowed the Biden White House to wreak havoc for four years. His reason? Perhaps to persuade Americans of the difference.
The election upshot was glaringly apparent even to the unlikely: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” said socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who votes with Democrats.
all documented in Geoff Shepard’s books.
It’s time the Stupid Party wise up too. While our prayer is that Trump learn from his mistakes, such as thinking lifelong bureaucrats would have his back, so too must the Republican Party learn from its, such as ignoring interests of people they represent. If the GOSP (Grand Old Stupid Party) doesn’t learn, the people they betray will leave it, and a grand opportunity will be missed.
Meanwhile, voters should note our own lesson from Tuesday’s political miracle. Columnist Gary Bauer advises: “Unless we’re ingrates, we need to be Christian citizens to save America. We also need to fervently pray. God helped David to defeat Goliath. But there still needed to be a David to go and fight the actual battle.”
I’ve thanked God almost hourly since Tuesday for answering practically every word of my prayers leading up to the election. Now, let’s see about California, hm?
Mark Landsbaum is a Christian retired journalist, former investigative reporter, editorial writer, and columnist. He also is a husband, father, grandfather, and Dodgers fan. He can be reached at mark.landsbaum@gmail.com
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