Your concept that God can do everything for us is twisted and counter productive. Yes, I believe we should seek guidance from the Lord when making important decisions, but Jesus preached to the people and told us knock and the door shall be opened. Ask and you shall receive, do not judge others.

Yes We Can is a call to get involved. We can’t wait for Jesus to return and balance the budget! These things must be done by us and we need to choose specific people who we can trust to do it well. People who have a strong faith in the goodness of others. Not people who judge others as evil and wage war.
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The Norwegian newspaper VG has reported a truly amazing story about a newly-wed trying to get to Norway to be with her husband, and the stranger who helped pay an unexpected luggage surcharge. The blog “Leisha’s Random Thoughts” has translated the story.

It was 1988, and Mary Andersen was at the Miami airport checking in for a long flight to Norway to be with her husband when the airline representative informed her that she wouldn’t be able to check her luggage without paying a 100 surcharge:

When it was finally Mary’s turn, she got the message that would crush her bubbling feeling of happiness.

-You’ll have to pay a 103 dollar surcharge if you want to bring both those suitcases to Norway , the man behind the counter said.

Mary had no money. Her new husband had traveled ahead of her to Norway , and she had no one else to call.

-I was completely desperate and tried to think which of my things I could manage without. But I had already made such a careful selection of my most prized possessions, says Mary.

As tears streamed down her face, she heard a “gentle and friendly voice” behind her saying, “That’s okay, I’ll pay for her.”
Mary turned around to see a tall man whom she had never seen before.

-He had a gentle and kind voice that was still firm and decisive. The first thing I thought was, Who is this man?

Although this happened 20 years ago, Mary still remembers the authority that radiated from the man.

-He was nicely dressed, fashionably dressed with brown leather shoes, a cotton shirt open at the throat and khaki pants, says Mary.

She was thrilled to be able to bring both her suitcases to Norway and assured the stranger that he would get his money back. The man wrote his name and address on a piece of paper that he gave to Mary. She thanked him repeatedly. When she finally walked off towards the security checkpoint, he waved goodbye to her.

Who was the man?

Barack Obama.

Twenty years later, she is thrilled that the friendly stranger at the airport may be the next President and has voted for him already and donated 100 dollars to his campaign:

-He was my knight in shining armor, says Mary, smiling.

She paid the 103 dollars back to Obama the day after she arrived in Norway . At that time he had just finished his job as a poorly paid community worker* in Chicago , and had started his law studies at prestigious Harvard university.

Mary even convinced her parents to vote for him:

In the spring of 2006 Mary’s parents had heard that Obama was considering a run for president, but that he had still not decided. They chose to write a letter in which they told him that he would receive their votes. At the same time, they thanked Obama for helping their daughter 18 years earlier.

And Obama replied:

In a letter to Mary’s parents dated May 4th, 2006 and stamped ‘United States Senate, Washington DC ‘, Barack Obama writes:

‘I want to thank you for the lovely things you wrote about me and for reminding me of what happened at Miami airport. I’m happy I could help back then, and I’m delighted to hear that your daughter is happy in Norway . Please send her my best wishes. Sincerely, Barack Obama , United States Senator’.

The parents sent the letter on to Mary.

Mary says that when her friends and associates talk about the election, especially when race relations is the heated subject, she relates the story of the kind man who helped out a stranger-in-need over twenty years ago, years before he had even thought about running for high office.

Truly a wonderful story and something that needs to be passed along in the maelstrom of fear-and-smear politics we are being subjected to right now.

Politicians are not a solution to Jesus’ calls for social justice, nor the government. Lately the Church hasn’t seemed like the solution, either. Especially when I see a homeless man turned away hungry from three well-to-do downtown churches. Especially when we’ve not doing for “the least of these” when we have 37.3 million people living in poverty in this country while we’ve building hundred thousand dollar basketball gyms for our social club churches. Especially when we’re not “loving our enemy” and “turning the other cheek” when our churches support a government that has killed tens of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan. The church has become too comfortable and lazy in this country. Christian leaders have gotten drunk off the wine of the Empire; off the taste of political power and the money that comes with it. Now the church is more interested in having its policy implemented into law and legislating a false sense of morality on the nation. Christians are more interested in editing our constitution to be in line with their twisted view of fundamentalist morality instead of follow Jesus’ calls to help the less fortunate.

In fact, the evangelical church in America has become so corrupt and morally bankrupt that it no longer resembles any of the teachings of Christ. The Southern Baptists and conservative Christian fundamentalists of the Religious Right have become a misguided group who traded the Gospel of Jesus for the Gospel of American Empire; who traded Jesus’ calls to end poverty and violence for the Empire’s call to wage war and to profit from the underprivileged.

As a Bible-believing Christian, I am PRO-LIFE and I vote ALL my values. That means I am against war, against the death penalty, against discrimination, against destroying life on this planet through pollution and oil addiction, in favor of welcoming the alien, and against policies that lead to violence and poverty around the world. Life doesn’t begin at conception and end at birth. I will not be voting for a McWarmonger.

I have heard one presidential candidate say that the Scripture we need in this campaign is, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness…” (Matthew 6:33). Some of his supporters came up with the slogan “GOD FIRST.” But Alan Keyes has been writing and saying these things about this presidential election for a year. You won’t hear about him in the media. You can look at archives at http://www.americasrevival.com. Or look on line for his “Crisis of the Republic” articles published over a year ago.

I notice a Saddleback Forum video and transcript link at the bottom of the article. John McCain was given great credit for his answer to life begins at conception answer. But what about he support for embryonic stem cell research, his voting for (our taxpayer money) funds for Planned Parenthood, and his support of exceptions to allow abortions for rape and incest. Does he recognize these are human life begins at conception, but values human life so little that he can condemn these little persons to death? Barack Obama has rightly been condemn for his evasiveness and support of abortion, even to the point of blocking attempts to save the lives of those who survive abortion attempts.

Should Christians settle for either of these two evil ideas or candidates. No candidate is perfect. the only man who ever lived a sinless life was condemned to death, not only by the Roman procurator, and the Jewish leaders but by the crowd. He lost the vote. He seems to be losing it among Christians today.

When Jesus was tempted by the devil with apparent and immediate success, Jesus turned him down and rebuked and rejected him. When Eve was offered the temptation to settle for that which she was told was within her grasp but was contrary to God’s will, she was deceived; she not only took from the fruit and ate, but she also gave to her husband who was with her, and he ate Genesis 3:1-8, 13; 1 Timothy 2:14). We have suffered the consequences since (Genesis 3:15-24; Romans 5:12-21).

The Apostle Paul wrote “And why not (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say), ‘Let us do evil that good may come’? Their condemnation is just,” and “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 3:8; 12:21). James wrote: “Therefore to one who knows [what is] good to do, and does not do it, to him it is sin.”

What if 50 million eligible voters in America decided they could not vote for a presidential candidate that supported the murder of innocent human life. And what if they were joined by others in voting for a candidate that not only supported life but could but argued for acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God over America, that this is a republic whose founding Documents recognize that all men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness, that our Constitution was established and ordained to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, that it recognizes that no person should be deprived of life without due process of law (of what crimes are the unborn guilty that they should they should receive from the hand of man the death penalty), that the sates are guaranteed a republican form of government. Neither of the two major party candidates for President offer this basic understanding; thus they are weak on other areas of defending our nation, this sovereignty, and our rights. There is a reason their slogans seem to pass over God. If we put ourselves first (“Yes, we can” or our “Country First” then as followers of Jesus Christ we should know that we will be last; indeed we may find ourselves not free (Matthew 19:30; 20:16, 27; Mark 10:31).

Christians should seek and work for a better alternative. “But seek ye first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).
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Slogans are just words. You are right in pointing out that the actions and beliefs behind the slogans are what truly matter because they drive behavior.