It seems that as a white evangelical, I am being encouraged to
blindly support President Trump, which I cannot. On the other hand, because I have in the past
encouraged that the left back off from criticizing absolutely everything he
does, I have been accused of being a Trump supporter.
If one were to bother to look at a blog I wrote during the
lead-up to the 2016 election, it would be clear that I did not want Trump as
president, but that I feared we might get what we “deserved” as a nation rather
than what we “needed.” That is what
happened. The choice between Trump and
Hillary was an impossible one to make.
They have both shown themselves to have a problem with truth, although
Trump certainly has less finesse in twisting the facts and does it with
alarming egotism.
I understand why white evangelicals have supported Trump. He has dangled conservative values in front
of us. He has not, however, lived
conservative values himself. He is playing
a game and may abruptly betray those values.
How do you trust someone who distorts the truth, tosses wives aside, and
is incessantly boastful?
I have, however, also been disturbed by the left picking at
every little thing he has done. Some of
the criticisms are just plain illogical.
I am perfectly fine with a valid criticism, but everything he has done
has not been wrong, and everyone he has appointed is not an incompetent
idiot. When you criticize everything,
you lose the ability to level a valid criticism. You have cried “wolf” so many times, that no
one can tell when it’s for real. So, to
impeach or not? Whose version of the
events are we to believe? Is this just
another in the list of ways that liberals and progressives have tried to find
an excuse to oust Trump, or can someone actually document his misdeeds? Which media outlet are we to believe?
Now he is abruptly pulling out of Mideast conflicts. Whether he approves of Turkey’s invasion of
Syria or is simply looking the other way, I don’t know. Abandonment of the Kurds is nauseating. BUT…it does seem to be a step in the fulfillment
of prophecy regarding what will happen as the world’s clock ticks down to
midnight, and the rightful KING returns.
An alliance between Turkey and Russia will happen. Invasion of Israel will happen.
Trump thinks he is a “stable genius” with “great and unmatched
wisdom.” He is actually a pawn in the
hand of God to bring about God’s plan to draw the world to its predicted close. The majority of people won’t believe
this. Trump certainly doesn’t. But, God is sovereign in the affairs of men
even when that is not obvious to us. It
won’t be the first time God has used someone who is amoral, maybe even mentally
unbalanced, to bring about His purposes.
We are witnesses to an amazing time in human history, but
instead of standing in awe, most of us are more concerned with who will win the
current Survivor, and whether Ziva and Tony will reunite.
Come, Lord Jesus!
Great one Aunt Ruth. Would love to talk about this one more. I usually don't talk politics in our home but I couldn't help myself this week. So at dinner I said I really thought Trump may be mentally unhinged. You don't need Democrats to tell you. Just listen to him and it makes you question his sanity.
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