There Ain't Room in This Town for Both of Us

Yeah, whatever. Whatever happens tonight with the election results, we as a nation are in deep trouble. The United States is becoming tribal and is increasingly ungovernable. Tom Brokaw has commented on this, as have Michael Barone and Victor Davis Hanson. Neither candidate is going to do anything but accelerate the process because politics is downstream of culture and they both represent different strains of what the U.S. has become and it is ugly.

My wife wore black to her job today in mourning for what has happened to this country. I agree. A passage from the Old Testament book of Lamentations gives some idea of where we are and where this once-great country is about to go:

How deserted lies the city,
    once so full of people!
How like a widow is she,
    who once was great among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces
    has now become a slave.

 Bitterly she weeps at night,
    tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers
    there is no one to comfort her.
All her friends have betrayed her;
    they have become her enemies.

                                                 Lamentations 1:1-2

Sack cloth and ashes are appropriate to "celebrate" whoever is the victor. But then there is tomorrow. 

Tomorrow should be a Romans 8:28 day for Christ-followers:

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[i] have been called according to his purpose.

God is still sovereign and we know that at the end of the story there is good, all good. It's the in-between part that's so very difficult, but be of good cheer because, despite all the mess, He has overcome the world. And that is the Rock that we hold on to.