Happy 2009 everyone. One of my new year’s resolutions is to try to start blogging on a more regular basis. It seems like I have been getting maybe one a month in, but I would really like to get one a week out. To me blogging is such a good way just to be able to put into words how you are feeling and what is going on in your life.
As I put in my last blog, my wife and I are expecting our first child. So far everything is going really well. There haven’t been any sorts of problems, and our little baby seems to be growing, as well as Ash’s belly, which in no way is a dig at her, it is just cute to look at lol. I feel so blessed to know that God has given me such a wonderful wife, one that is going to take care of our child now and after birth. Ash is going to be a wonderful mom, and I hope I can be a wonderful dad. We go back to the doctor the 28th and then back four weeks after that to find out what the sex is and I can’t wait!
Incase you haven’t heard we also have a new president with this new year. This is actually what I was wanting to blog about. My good friend Tommy wrote an e-mail a while ago, talking about the hatred that has been put out by Christians towards our new president. I will be the first to tell anyone that I did not vote for Obama. I don’t agree with a lot of things he is going to be standing for. I don’t believe that he can possibly fulfill all of the promises that he has made to the country. But I believe in our Savior. I trust that God has put President Obama into this position for a reason, even if it is just to test our strength and our faith in Christ.
What I don’t believe in is the Obama bashing that has been going on. I will admit, and Ash can even tell you, that I make my cracks and my jokes about Obama, but nothing I say comes from pure hate for the man. There are a lot of Christians out there that I believe truly “HATE” Obama, and that is just pathetic to be honest. We as Christians are better than that, we are bigger than that. At this point in time, we have one option when it comes to our new president, and that is to pray for him. Pray for him everyday. Pray for him to make decisions that will reflect the attitude and heart of Christ Jesus. Will he make those decisions, based on what he has said….probably not. He will probably be pushing homosexual marriage. He will probably be pushing for Pro-Choice laws. Even still, that harder we must pray for him. We can only hope that God will impress upon his heart that those are not the right decisions. That homosexual marriage only defiles that holy sanctity of marriage. That the beautiful small child growing inside a mother’s womb is meant for so much more. Believe me, the abortion situation hits home with me in multiple ways. I have heard my child’s heartbeat at just 8 weeks, and to say that that little fetus growing inside my wife’s womb isn’t alive is just beyond me.
Yet still we must pray. The only website we can get on at work is the news site WBIR.com. If you haven’t been to the site, you can post almost whatever you want on there, and it is sad to see what some “Christians” have posted. The hatred that has been shown towards this man is unbelievable. It actually makes me sick to think that people can say what they say and then quote scripture. I want everyone on here to know that I am going to start today praying for Obama, every single day. I ask all of you to join me in that prayer. Do not pray for any pain or suffering towards him, pray for his heart to be open and for him to listen to what the Lord would have him do. Pray that he will stand upon the Word of God and be a tool for a greater glory than himself. I want to end this with a little bit of what came from Tommy’s e-mail because I think he puts it really well. Please just remember to pray and trust…..
“I'm afraid of the fear and hate we are generating amongst our own people. I'm afraid that Christians will be put on public trial not because of our stand on the word of God, but because we end up lashing out in the hatred and fear that we've stirred up amongst ourselves. I want to be labeled "an extremist" because I take God's word to heart, not because my fellow Christians are shooting at the president because they think he is the embodiment of all that is evil.No matter what we may think of him, he will be the president for the next four years. Disagreement is great, it's what keeps us in check. And I'm not calling on everyone to fall in love with the guy (as some have). But brewing a pot of hatred is not going to do us any good; it will only bring us down in the end. God calls us to pray for our leaders. How can we pray for someone we hate? If we're not praying, then we are doing more damage to the Church than any persecutors ever could, because we're doing it from the inside out.” ---Tommy Brown
Be an example.
