Monday, November 3, 2008

No time for blogging

I'd blog tonight but I have to go and dry my hair. And I know that may sound silly but it's pretty serious business. Just kidding...kind of. (Shelly and Brittany, I'm sure you know where I'm coming from.)

Hope everyone exercises their freedom of voting tomorrow! Here is a prayer from John Piper regarding the election tomorrow:

A Prayer for the Election

November 3, 2008 | By: John Piper

Father in heaven, as we approach this election on Tuesday, I pray

1) that your people will vote,

2) and that they will vote with a sense of thankfulness for a democratic system that at least partially holds in check the folly and evil in all our hearts so that power which corrupts so readily is not given to one group or person too easily;

3) that we would know and live the meaning of

  • being in the world, but not of it,
  • doing politics as though not doing them,
  • being on the earth, yet having our lives hidden with Christ in God,
  • rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesars, and to God the things that are God’s;

4) that we would discern what truths and values should advance by being made law and which should advance only by the leavening of honest influence;

5) that your people would see what love and justice and far-seeing wisdom demand in regard to the issues of education, business and industry, health care, marriage and family, abortion, welfare, energy, government and taxes, military, terrorism, international relations, and every challenge that we will face in the years to come;

6) and above all, that we will treasure Jesus Christ, and tell everyone of his sovereignty and supremacy over all nations, and that long after America is a footnote to the future world, he will reign with his people from every tribe and tongue and nation.

Keep us faithful to Christ’s all important Word, and may we turn to it every day for light in these dark times.

In Jesus’ name,

Amen.

2 comments:

  1. thanks for the shout out! 3 days down, 27 more to go. way to support the festive month. as was the theme in many an open mic chapels, Persevere!

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  2. amen! (to the prayer, and to the need to straighten hair!)

    thanks for such an encouraging reminder to pray for our nation.

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