It Will Be Alright

Dearest Daughter,
It has been a while since my last letter. Not for any particular reason, it's just that over the last year we have spent a lot of time together so I hadn't felt the need.

I know that this past election cycle has caused many, including you, some concern. That concern shows you are growing and maturing, at least in some areas. Ha! Yes, there are some things that many people don't like about our new incoming president. I know he is for killing babies. I know he is for re-defining marriage and family, and a host of other things that we cannot agree with. But, no matter, he will still be our next president.

So, what are we to do? Well, let's see if we can come up with a thing or two.

• Pray earnestly for him by name. Pray that God will protect him from harm and illness.
  
• Pray for his family.
  
• Pray for his adviser's.
• Pray that the decisions he makes are bathed in his own prayer. (assuming he is Christian as he states)
  

Did you notice they all begin with prayer? That is the first and most important thing we should have been doing and should be doing. Praying also helps keep concern from becoming worry. When we worry, we are not letting God be God. But we can do other things. We can continue to watch and listen and when necessary and led by God, get into the fight against immorality. Maybe you might call or write your legislator as an example of getting into the fight. Different issues may call for different action.

All these new things are a little scary aren't they? And they scare all of us to some degree. We can never know for sure how a person will govern the people in his charge. Israel, God's chosen, had bad kings. They led or allowed their people to worship idols and false gods and God dealt with them justly and then showed his compassion.

I wish I could assure you that things will be as they are now, but I can't do that. I can promise you that whatever we are called to go through that we will be better on the other side of it. As I look at where the gospel is spreading the most, I see it growing and flourishing in places where it is most persecuted. There are countries like China where the underground church is far bigger and stronger than their government will ever be able to know. Even Christianity itself was spread faster and farther because of the persecution brought on it in the early stages.

I told you that our pastor taught from Habakkuk last Sunday night. Chapter 2 v. 1 "I will stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart; And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved" (answers me). Guard your heart and your home with the Word of God and respond as he answers. And while you are standing guard, v. 20 gives us one other instruction; "But the Lord is in His holy temple(Heaven)" ... I might add that He is still on the throne as well.

Things just might get hard, then they may not change much at all, but, "For the Lord is righteous; He loves righteousness; the upright(those that follow Him) will see his face." Psalm 11:7 NAS. What a promise for us. We accept his righteousness as the payment for our sin, we follow Him and His teachings, things turn out in the end and in His time.

So don't worry. As you know very well, God is in control of every event and He knows in advance what our needs will be. All we have to do is ask for it. Sleep soundly tonight knowing our futures are in the only hands that matter.

Your Dad