Obama Nation

this post was originally posted on facebook and was written by clayton wheeler and i couldnt help but spread this note he wrote.


On November 4 2008 I found myself in an emergency room where my roommate had just gone after he disslocated his knee cap, as we were waiting so was the rest of the nation for who was going to be the next commander and chief. When the results came in that Obama was president it didn't surprise me, I had picked him to win earlier last week from what I had seen in the recent poles and early voting. Once he came on I couldn't help but look at those in the crowd hanging on every word that he said as if he were a prophet, it looked like the beginning of a Coldplay Concert only it was just one man who had a few words to say about his long campaign and the future of this nation.

I couldn't help but notice how many people are so hopeful in this man, it's like all our problems are solved and all it took was getting this one man in office. Is this true? Can this man be the savior of this nation? I feel as though all these people in that crowd felt this way, they had this feeling that this man has all the answers to this country's problems. Does he? How can one man solve everything or has one man already solved everything?

As someone who has watched this campaign all year I must say I have been the most dissipointed in the Christians, there the one's who are out there waving there flag and bumper sticker of choice as if we need someone else to save us. My question to them would be isn't Jesus enough, now I don't want you all the think that you shouldn't be concerned with politics the fact is that you should but for a Christian keep your motives in check. We do not live or die by the vote, we live or die by our following of Jesus yes Jesus is still the answer. Another thing is that you need to understand that God has allowed this to happen for a reason and sometimes our will isn't always God's, I believe that all 43 presidents before Obama were appointed by God for some reason and with that Said God has chosen Obama to lead the United States for the next 4 plus years.

I want to leave with the words of the most righteous Woman I know she is my Mom of course, in light of the events she talked to me about them today. She first said that there has never been this great of an African American turn out at any election why? Cause they never felt that they had anyone to vote for, I mean let's look at it how have we treated minority's in the past? You know we talk about looking after the widow, the orphan, and the oppressed and I must say that we failed especially in the 50's through 70"s in how we treated the minority's. I praise God for speaking through a man like Dr King who said that according to Jesus this is wrong and something must be done, God used Dr King because of his passion and drive and finally I believe the U.S.A. has broken down some huge walls by electing it's first Black President and for that I congratulate President elect Barack Obama just like my mom congratulated her African American Friend earlier today.

Now my challenge to all Christians is that you would pray for Barack Obama as he leads this country, and that God may use him to do the things that he wants this country to do.

Grace and Peace be with you.

C-Dub