Relieved of the fears of re-election, impeachment and media scrutiny

[DefiantSix]

It's obvious he has done so already.
I can't say I blame him, we have let our society decay so badly. We have allowed abortion on demand, we have limited ourselves from using the resources that we have been given, we have voted ourselves the wealth of other people, and we have replaced compassion with enabling those who choose to do nothing for themselves.

Folks, in the words of the old carol, "...God is not dead, nor doth he sleep."  God has not forsaken those who have not forsaken him.  I know this - through the testimony of the Holy Spirit - and I pray each of us can know this in the depths of their souls over the next week or so.

We, as a people, must individually force ourselves to understand God's ways, if we intend to emerge on the other side of this with our faith and sanity intact.  God, for all his omnipotence, is a God of order.  He has created this universe, established the laws by which it operates, and scrupulously follows those laws.  One of those laws - one which we who call ourselves his children have ignored - is the law that you cannot get something for nothing.  We have mistakenly believed that our parents and grandparents busted their asses, sacrificed, lived frugally, lived humbly, so that we, their descendents, would not have to.  

This - in my opinion - is the core of our error as a nation, for in so doing, many of us have come to believe that one of God's other laws - that actions and choices have consequences - doesn't apply to us.  God can stand by us while we go through the inevitable consequences of 100 years of national insanity, but like the loving parent with a child going through detox, he can sympathize, he can hold our hands while we go through the worst of this, he can do what he needs to in order for us to LIVE through the withdrawal symptoms, but he cannot take away the natural consequences of our actions without devaluing the lesson we need to take away from this.  Without risking that we'd turn back to the false ways that got us into this mess, like a dog to it's own vomit. As much as watching us go through this has to break Heavenly Father's heart, watching us turn back to it after having gone through this would hurt him even more.

[wasp69]

Folks, in the words of the old carol, "...God is not dead, nor doth he sleep."  God has not forsaken those who have not forsaken him.  I know this - through the testimony of the Holy Spirit - and I pray each of us can know this in the depths of their souls over the next week or so.

I fear it is much worse than that:

3 “Now you dwellers in Jerusalem and people of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard.
4 What more could have been done for my vineyard than I have done for it?  When I looked for good grapes, why did it yield only bad?
5 Now I will tell you what I am going to do to my vineyard:  I will take away its hedge, and it will be destroyed; I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and briers and thorns will grow there.  I will command the clouds not to rain on it.”
7 The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in.  And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.
8 Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field till no space is left and you live alone in the land.
9 The Lord Almighty has declared in my hearing:  “Surely the great houses will become desolate, the fine mansions left without occupants.
10 A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath[a] of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah[c] of grain.”
11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to run after their drinks, who stay up late at night till they are inflamed with wine.
12 They have harps and lyres at their banquets, pipes and timbrels and wine, but they have no regard for the deeds of the Lord, no respect for the work of his hands.
13 Therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding; those of high rank will die of hunger and the common people will be parched with thirst.
14 Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.
15 So people will be brought low and everyone humbled, the eyes of the arrogant humbled.
16 But the Lord Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.
17 Then sheep will graze as in their own pasture; lambs will feed[d] among the ruins of the rich.
18 Woe to those who draw sin along with cords of deceit, and wickedness as with cart ropes,
19 to those who say, “Let God hurry; let him hasten his work so we may see it.  The plan of the Holy One of Israel—let it approach, let it come into view, so we may know it.”
20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight.
22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and champions at mixing drinks,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice to the innocent.
24 Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against his people; his hand is raised and he strikes them down.  The mountains shake, and the dead bodies are like refuse in the streets.  Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away, his hand is still upraised.
26 He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, he whistles for those at the ends of the earth.  Here they come, swiftly and speedily!
27 Not one of them grows tired or stumbles, not one slumbers or sleeps; not a belt is loosened at the waist, not a sandal strap is broken.
28 Their arrows are sharp, all their bows are strung; their horses’ hooves seem like flint, their chariot wheels like a whirlwind.
29 Their roar is like that of the lion, they roar like young lions; they growl as they seize their prey and carry it off with no one to rescue.
30 In that day they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea.  And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the sun will be darkened by clouds.

I pray that those who believe survive, but it rains on the just and unjust alike.

[DefiantSix]

I pray that those who believe survive, but it rains on the just and unjust alike.

Amen, my friend.

[Dori]

I fear it is much worse than that:

Quote from: Isaiah 5:3 - 30

Oh, I love that.  Thanks for posting it.

[NHSparky]

what will Obama do now?

Will it be a continued, incremental march to impose government dependency or will they make a full-on dash with an outright disregard for the law, due process and rights?

Option B.  Despite winning barely 50 percent of the vote, the left and MSM (I know, redundant) will call this a "mandate" and rush headlong, knowing that by 2017 (or later, if the American people are REALLY stupid) it'll already be too late to reverse it.

[Eupher]

Option B.  Despite winning barely 50 percent of the vote, the left and MSM (I know, redundant) will call this a "mandate" and rush headlong, knowing that by 2017 (or later, if the American people are REALLY stupid) it'll already be too late to reverse it.

Oh, rest assured, it's no holds barred. From now until the Marxist in Chief HAS to leave my White House, he and his sycophants will run pell mell into their marxist bag of tricks and come up with shit that we couldn't even imagine he could do.

Of course you remember Barry's live-mike comment to Putin's minion that he'll have more "flexibility" after the election. Flexibility, my ass. That ****er's a regular Gumby.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I would say we might as well adopt the Greek flag (Changing the stripes to red), but I know the Dems would go apeshit because it has a cross on it.

[jctejas]

Well the mainstream media and the left stratagizers have a easy job now.
Anything good praise obama anything bad its the wrascally wrepublican congress.

jctejas

[Duke Nukum]

The second thing, I think.