I was listening to New Hampshire Public Radio yesterday - because I like knowing how liberals think - anyway I heard one of the talk show hosts say, “We may think we are electing a President, but we are really getting the President we deserve.” I was stopped in my tracks. Was this a spiritual statement coming out of a liberal mouth? Or was it merely an overconfident statement concerning their view that a liberal would finally be elected President?

It turned out to be the latter and I was back to work. However, no matter what the motive for the statement, it is still true. Unless God has mercy on us us, we will get the President we deserve. No - I am not talking conservative or liberal, conservatives can think errantly too - I am talking about just plain bad. It is a known fact that we tend to vote for people who are like us and who will let us have what we want. If our choice is elected it re-enforces our self esteem, if not then we were right and they were wrong. These days, one is guaranteed that 50% of the people or more will be with you.

The point is this, if we think errantly, we will vote errantly. The more people vote for someone who supports their errant view, the greater the likelihood we will have a President who has that same error in their thinking. When a nation serves God,the result is godly leadership comes into power. Dictators, tyrants, etc. are the result of prolonged wrong thinking, resulting in wrong choices, resulting in wrong leadership. With few exceptions, dictators come into power to meet the peoples desires, in the end the people are used to meet their desires. Anarchy is the next step in the cycle. We desperately need God’s choice for President.

Blessings,
John Paul

What a beautiful day. I’m sitting here in my home office, in New Hampshire, watching it snow. We have close to three feet on the ground now, with another foot up in the clouds waiting to descend on our heavily forested hillsides. It is days like this that give one time to pause, think about today, ruminate on yesterday and re-envision ourselves for tomorrow. It is a new year, new hopes, and new aspirations. To some, the thought of a new year only means more of the same - ugh! To others, more of the same is not all that bad. To me, a new year, especially at this time, is really good. I need a good, new year. That means change!

To change we have to think and do differently than we have previously thought and done - sounds simple but it is not. Habits of thought are hard to break. To break a habit, we must have a bigger “no” to our old thoughts in our heart than the yes contained in the old habit. This year I am finding my bigger “no” in thinking back five years. Yep- that’s right five years. You see the past five years have flown by like a nano-second. If I am not careful the next five, in “trekian terms” will pass by in warp drive and I will still be the same. At that time I will have had ten years of the same - the last five and the coming five.

So my bigger “no” comes from a huge desire to see the five ten years be significantly better than the last five. When we think in five year terms it makes things seem permanent and less cyclical, and I need that. Perhaps you do as well. What were you doing five years ago - what will you be doing five years from now? Set the tone today, break old thought processes and tomorrow is in your hands. The battle is for our mind and how we see ourselves in God’s plan. With God you cannot fail to change. He made you for such a time as this! Join me, and become what God created you to be.

Blessings,
John Paul