God Will Not Honor This

                Forty-three years ago today....November 4, 1979....Iranian students rushed the American embassy and took 52 diplomats and employees hostage.....a hostage situation that would last for 444 days....and effectively end any chance that Jimmy Carter had for a second term.  I was not aware of what was going on....and would not be for a number of days....because on that day I sat at my father's hospital bedside as he passed away. 
              God causes nations to rise and to fall....as well as kings....and governments....and individuals. The Republican Party right now....as defined by its leadership....and those who have sold their birthright for an endorsement....is about revenge....not to get to the truth....for truth does not matter anymore in either party....but to assuage the guilt of who and what they have become....having in the past few short years left the high ground of integrity....and now with purposed rage....orchestrated by the maestro of rage himself....seek only to inflame and incite....to demonize others in order to take the light off of their own horrible decisions and lack of compassion.
               Believing that their blood-lust honors God....they offer sacrifices that are a stench in His nostrils. God will not honor this. Nor will He honor my efforts....or anyone's efforts....if we harbor hate and revenge in our hearts....and do not stand before Him in humility....admitting our own culpability in what we have become. Taking advantage of the righteousness of obeying God on issues that the other side has stomped upon....these same people who today claim to be instruments of that righteousness....defended the most vile of all offenders....even a false prophet who led the sheep astray....and kept him in office....and now....almost beyond even imagination....they are giving him a pathway to return....so that he can take his vengeance on those who did not bow down to him.