Dave,

I appreciate your thoughts and have been thinking along similar lines the last few days. It has been said that God gives nations the leaders they deserve. I think that is mercifully not always true, but in due time it comes to be. Perhaps our time as a nation has come to get the leadership we truly deserve.

Daniel 2:21 tells us that God removes kings and sets up kings. As I reflected on the course of the election campaigns, it struck me that McCain had virtually eliminated Obama's lead in the polls and was in a positive trajectory when the bottom suddenly fell out of the markets. With that, McCain's standing in the polls also tumbled sharply. He started to regain lost ground after the markets seemed to stabilize, but not quickly enough in the short time that remained. The timing of the market collapse with its obvious impact upon the election seemed to me to bear the mark of divine intervention.

How reasonable is it for the most powerful nation in the history of the world to elect as its leader in a time of war a junior senator with no governing experience whatever, no military experience, no significant legislation to his credit, a clearly socialist philosophy, obvious naiveté in matters of foreign relations, and such questionable associations that he would never have obtained an FBI security clearance? It's mind boggling. All these things suggest to me that God indeed has given us our new president-elect.

I suppose what most concerns me is that so many men and women who profess to know the Lord gave their votes to such an obviously wicked man. What does that say of the condition of the church in America?