201`6-02-10 THRIVE

[Kent Ross]

 

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February 10, 2016 – Wednesday Morning E-Devotional

"THRIVE Toward ... What? - Kent Ross (Ohio)

               Democratic                                Republicans

               Sanders       138, 716                 Trump          97,417

               Clinton           88,827                  Kasich         41,813

               O'Malley           1,896                  Cruz             30,416

                                                                   Bush            29,186
                                                                   Rubio           27,774

                                                                   Christie        19,811

                                                                   Fiorina         10,969

                                                                   Carson           5,965

                                                                   Paul               1,711

 

Did your favorite win last night in New Hampshire's primaries? Did he or she lose? Disappoint? Surprise?

I've been, and I guess still am, a political 'junkie.' It began way back in Meeker County when Dad ran for election to the country office of Clerk of Court. I remember going down with him to the courthouse where the ballot boxes came in and where the votes were counted. Back of Bill Martinson's office, just off the main hallway, there was a huge blackboard. I'm not sure just how huge it was, from my childhood memories, but they used a ladder to write results in when they went on the higher levels. Anyway, I remember Dad holding my hand as we walked around in that room amidst lots of other interested ones.

I am now no t directly involved in politics except to the extent of voting in all elections since I turned 21 back when that was considered the age of adulthood. Now though we vote by mail, as getting to the voting booth is too difficult and with my vision also bring impaired. Thanks goodness, I stilll have my mind though there are some in my family who dispute that.

But voting today is ephemeral in that it's results won't last. Sooner or later God will decide that it is time, as he did way back in the days of Noah, and He will send His Son, Jesus to initiate the Kingdom of God. Remember that part of Jesus' prayer, "Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."

We need always to remember that this life and these elections, though important in one sense, are ALWAYS subject to God's Plan for us individually and for His country and for His world !