A New Day

As of 12 o'clock today our country has a new president. In all fairness I must admit that I was not a Barack Obama supporter during the election. As you'll probably find out later in this blog, I have strong opinions that differ greatly at times from our newly elected official. However, President Obama has officially been sworn in and he will now lead us... all of us. I hope that our country will do a better job in supporting our new president than we did over the last eight years. I personally believe that our entire nation will be held accountable for the injustice that we have done to the Bush family. We are so quick to judge the former president's actions, but not one of us would have traded places with him. Hopefully history will remember everything that former President Bush accomplished, both good and bad. It would be unfair for us to conveniently re-write history in order to serve our own selfish purposes. What would we have without the truth? 

This brings me to my point for today. Let's view this change in our country as an opportunity for the church to stand up and do what is right, what we are called by God to do. Let's support our leaders and pray for their wisdom, discernment, and righteousness. Change for the sake of change is no change at all. However, change that leads us to holiness will impact the world. Although President Obama can be the leader of a movement in our culture, he alone has very little ability to change our world. True change comes from the Body of Believers being faithful to God's call on our individual lives and in the world. Let's not repeat the same bipartisan rhetoric that we've heard over the last decade. Let's put our support behind our president for our God. It's time for God's people to make a stand for the one true Agent of Change.