A Quick Note of Hope on Inauguration Day

As part of that minority of people that doesn’t particularly feel like celebrating the election of a man who believes the lordship of Christ extends right up to the point where it clashes with liberal interest groups and that the right to life extends right up to the point where it clashes with our sex drive, I would like to sound a hopeful note on this Inauguration Day. While I don’t find Obama anything to celebrate, it is truly remarkable that a black man has been elected President in a nation that a century-and-a-half ago fought the bloodiest war in its history over slavery and ended segregation mere decades ago. Who could have conceived in the midst of those terrible struggles that a black President was not too far over the horizon? So while circumstances may look bleak for those of us who pray for justice for all, even the most vulnerable and defenseless, let us not give up hope, nor despair if victory looks far off and out of reach. God does, at times, grant repentance to a nation, and we may hope that his hand will move yet again to bring justice to the oppressed.

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