As you go to the polls today or perhaps watch from a distance, think about this: What is God doing?
As the results come in and winners are announced (for people on the west coast like me, that could be before we even get a chance to vote), think about this: What is God doing?
As commentators and pundits pour over the information flooding in, speculate on the outcome and try and imagine what the world will be like based on what happens today, think about this: What is God doing?
As the world outside of America watches and comments on the results of today, think about this: What is God doing?
Today we exercise our greatest privilege as citizens of a democracy. Today we feel the power to change things. And even if you feel like your vote makes no difference (it does in principle), think about this in spite of that: What is God doing?
God sets people up and takes them down. God is not watching CNN and wondering how it’s going to come out. God is concerned about the whole world. He knows where there are people who don’t even know there is an election in America, indeed, they may not even have heard of America, but think about this in light of them, too: What is God doing?
It’s bigger than any election. It’s bigger than any results. It’s bigger than our country or yours. It’s as big as you can get at any time, any place: What is God doing?
The answer to this question puts you in touch with God’s will. The answer to this question guarantees you are not wasting your time. The answer to this question puts you on par with Noah, Daniel and Job who were constantly thinking about this: What is God doing?
The answer to this question is that there is no answer, or at least the answer changes. There is no permanent answer. So to ask the question is to be alive; it is to seek meaning. It is to be engaged in something much bigger than anyone can vote for or predict. It is to be engaged in what matters.
You ask the question not so much for the answer, but for the person you will become by asking. And you keep asking: What is God doing? For that is what you want to be about.
John Fischer The Catch 
Excellent question. And as you’re asking it, ask yourself, “How can I join Him in what He’s doing?” That’s the question Henry Blackaby poses in his study “Experiencing God,” and it is one that I am learning to ask myself wherever I am and whatever I’m doing. Because God is always doing SOMETHING around us at all times, and it ALWAYS involves a relationship, either with Him or other people and usually both. Pray for our nation and that God uses this election to bring glory to Himself.
I have truly enjoyed The Catch from yesterday – “Politics, Religion and the Kingdom of God” and then this one today. The political scene saddens me, because of all the lost people looking for hope in places which WILL fail them! The God of the universe is the only one who can fulfill their wildest dreams! Pray for our world – so many need the Lord!
Jesus enjoined us to pray that His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. When faced with persecution, Mordecai the Jew didn’t just say oh well, I guess we’re all going to die.
Although persecution might bring more spirituality in the US than our current state, I do not look forward to my children or grandchildren growing up in an antichristian state. I do not believe one party is savior or the answer to all our problems, but I do not think all or nothing thinking is the right course of action either.
As a citizen of the United States I choose to vote against the tide of evil; against an administration that has increased money for abortion, has made every effort to remove Christian influence on the state, and allowed every other sort of evil to be promoted. If that was the only reason, I would vote.
We’ve all seen the movie, “It’s a Wonerful LIfe”, but did you ever stop to think what a better place this country might be if 40 million aborted children were still alive? Think about it. The presidents who were voted in by our votes appointed the Supreme Court justices, of which only two voted against Roe vs Wade. Three more dissenting votes would have made a HUGE impact over the last 40 years.
In every area of our lives it absolutely makes a difference what choices we make, including what we do as a citizen of the United States.
We CAN fast and pray
We CAN vote
Did you vote?
I am DEFINITELY praying that “God’s will be done” here on Earth today 🙂
Look at recent history to see how God has worked in some unlikely political areas.
30 yrs ago would anyone have predicted the years of impact Jimmy Carter would have on building homes, monitoring elections, negotiating peace?
How about the great impact George W. Bush has had and is having on AIDS in Africa.
And more recently Bill Clinton and George H. Bush in Haiti.
God’s got it going on, no matter what we think of individuals, political parties, our own “in-the-moment” crises. It’s actually very comforting and very exciting as we wonder what all God will do through unlikely believers over the next 30 years!