Irony

To quote another blog:

Innocent Victims of an Obama Presidency
by Marcia Segelstein

The good news out of Election 2008 is that all the predictions that racism would ultimately prevent Barack Obama being elected did not come true. There is, however, a tragic irony that may well also occur as a result of this election. James Kushiner, publisher of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, writes about it on the magazine’s website:

“[W]hile blacks have risen from the indignities and injustice of slavery in which their bodies were sold and consumed as property, and have endured segregation and second-class citizen status and racial discrimination, and have now one of their own elected to the highest office in the land, this very president-elect, Barack Obama, will increase the death toll among black human beings if he fulfills his promise to enact a Freedom of Choice Act, which will serve as a firewall around Roe v. Wade, the Dred Scott decision of our times…Discrimination based on the color of one’s skin is not now the burning issue of our time…It’s that we’ve forgotten the value of human skin in the first place.”

Time to wake up and get busy!

Ok. So this morning I wanted to climb back under the covers and stay there. I have shed my many tears over the future of our nation, but now it's time to pick ourselves up off the floor, dust ourselves off and get busy. We need to get busy sharing the gospel with an urgency like never before - while we still have the precious freedom to do so publically. Since we cannot count on laws to protect the precious lives of the unborn, we need to work even harder at finding other ways to protect them - intervening in the lives of those with unwanted pregnancies before they make a decision that will haunt them forever. We still need to pray fervently for God's mercy on our country. Maybe this is what we Christians need to wake us up and get us out of our comfortable lives and spur us to immediate action. Although it is a very dark day, God is still on the throne and in control.

"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." Eph.5:15-16

Another reason...

"In Isaiah 41:11 the Lord is promising Israel "All who rage against you will surely be ashamed and disgraced; those who oppose you will be as nothing and perish."

Newspaper 'suppressing' Obama link to anti-Israel professor