Aliens in America: Day 6
Con and Conscience
‘As aliens, live in reverent fear.’ (1 Pet 1:17)
I initiated ‘Aliens in America’ after the Trump/Biden debate in June. How could Donald still try to dodge the truth that he undermined the law by refusing to accept election defeat in ’20?
Unreality. Subterfuge. Lying then manipulating and mobilizing dispossessed ‘patriots.’
That’s evil. Period.
Don’t get me wrong. I flinch at Kamala’s main plank of ‘reproductive freedom’ and Walz establishing Minnesota as a ‘trans’ state of refuge. A Harris vote ensures indignities upon the most vulnerable. Claro.
Trump is less clear. He just lies. If he doesn’t like reality, he alters it. He insists. Those who claim Trump lost the election are no longer his friends.
Sure, many still want Trump because, despite these shortcomings, his policies align more with their values. Fair enough, but be prepared to endure a world of Trump's own design. Suspend objective reality ‘cause he may well change it.
I am grateful that Trump did leave the White House on January 20th, ’21. He did so after fomenting an attack on the US Capitol, unprecedented in our history of presidential transitions. I do not attribute Trump’s surrendering the presidency to his good will but to God’s grace and the quality of our democracy.
I do not follow media inflation of Trump’s unlikability. Vilifying him is pointless and amplifies his strategy of saying rabid things to attract fringe voters. Trump is not the source of all our evils. We’ve many quieter ones, draped in dignity. Just scan your news feed: Kamala, wordless yet regal, with Trump framed on the verge of an aneurysm, spewing hate.
Vance too. For all JD’s articulate, gracious ways, the media frames him as a bumbling, woman-hating clod: nothing elegiac about that hillbilly.
In truth, Vance is the best thing about Trump, as his interviews and debate against Walz reveal.
The debate also revealed his blind spot, as he dodged the ’20 election question artlessly (censorship? really?) and still cast doubt on the results of that election.
I’m incredulous. Vance claims he can disagree with Trump and invokes ‘common sense’ policies about the economy and building families.
Show us the ‘common sense’ that guards our democracy and the peaceful transition of power America faces in the next few months. JD, tell us the truth: Trump lost fair and square in ’20. He lied and endangered our democracy, which happens to be more resilient than Trump is corrupt.
‘Do not quiet our consciences, O God, when we have been conned. In accord with the truth you’ve placed in our hearts, keep us alive to reality, allergic to unreality, especially in the slippery world of politics. Free us, as aliens, from being fools for anyone other than You.’
‘Jesus, You are the King and we are first citizens of Your Kingdom. Would you free us for You in this election season, not to hide but to shine? You’ve always asked nothing less from Your elect whom You have made ‘strangers in a strange land’ (Ex. 2:22). Here we are, a people who don’t know what to do but who look and listen to our King.
“Father of all holiness,
guide our hearts to You.
Keep in the light of Your Truth
all those You have freed from the darkness of unbelief.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son.”’
Amen
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Thanks for the post. I admire your willingness to call out the glaring issues with each of these candidates. Though tempting for me, I don’t think it works to always be operating from a detached place with prayers limited to vague notions about peace and repentance. Rather, I think we need to discern and name the specific wrongs that we observe in our leaders, while still viewing them as image-bearers of God. So thanks for doing that. Seems like not an easy task in a public forum where your audience can criticize behind shields of anonymity.
Interesting watching all of this. Thank God for the 1st Amendment!
I'm confused, since I thought signing up for this 40 day prayer vigil was supposed to be crying out for mercy for our nation's desperate condition.
A suggestion: Andy, consider focusing on issues, not personalities and Parties.
- Father, please let Christ and His Cross be lifted high within all of our borders;
- please shine the Light of Truth, and Righteousness, and Justice;
- please stop the lying (applies to both sides of the aisle);
- please bring Healing to the physically and psychologically and sexually and spiritually broken;
- please help us to find the balance between welcoming the alien (Lev. 19:34) without losing our national identity…
You say Trump tries "to dodge the truth that he undermined the law by refusing to accept election defeat in ’20?"
To you that's "Unreality. Subterfuge. Lying then manipulating and mobilizing dispossessed ‘patriots.’ "
And more: "That’s evil. Period."
But you "flinch at Kamala’s main plank of ‘reproductive freedom’ and Walz establishing Minnesota as a ‘trans’ state of refuge. A Harris vote ensures indignities upon the most vulnerable."
With a final: "Claro."
Seems your reactions are opposite what they should be:
Flinch at Trump. Claro.
Harris/Walz are evil. Period.
I've read all of your posts so far. It's obvious that you don't like Trump (understatement !) But although you make an attempt to appear "fair and balanced" you always paint…
To post this on your personal blog is one thing. But to post this picture of Trump and provocative caption on the Desert Stream Ministry social media accounts is a whole other thing. Talk about a self inflicted wound to the ministry!
These blogs have become increasingly aggressive and offensive. Disappointing, glib, insulting and frankly disgusting. This one is well over the top. Actually shocking.
To realize you think like this is disturbing. That you think publishing this train of thought is a good idea shows incredibly poor judgment. I’m so sorry to learn this about you. I have admired your work with DS for decades. These recent blogs are so disappointing.
I’m a solid citizen of the Kingdom and the USA. I’m proudly, prayerfully and without hesitation voting for Trump and Vance.
Blessings, Doré