What is left to be said after the catastrophe of yesterday's elections? More importantly, what is to be done?
First, conservatives should not despair. We are of all people most hopeful. Most of us are Christians, and we take the bad with the good. Democrats, or whatever one wants to call the opposition, are not people of hope, but people of constant anxiety and fear.
We do not live for the revolution; they do. Every day they awaken to crisis. For us, the very nature of the Christian worldview rules out totalizing visions, whereas the acquisition and exercise of power is all they have. There is no way we can match their enthusiasm for an immanent eschaton. We live as pilgrims, strangers in a foreign land, struck by the beauty of the created world and motivated by a desire to bless all people, friend and foe alike.
Their driving impetus is conflict and conquest.
Of course it is disappointing to experience a political reversal of this magnitude. There is no way to sugar-coat it. Yet we know that our cause if just, and in many dimensions our beliefs and principles are the ones that fit best with human thriving.
Our adversaries a peddlers of death and misery, all in the name of compassion and fairness.
Just consider what we are faced with. An entertainment industry that is largely nihilistic and hostile. A big business environment that is morally untethered. A fractious and rebellious judiciary. A media world that disdains our presence. An educational system that is spiritually perverse and intellectually dishonest.
Yet we have overcome all of this, time and again. And we will do so in the days to come.
(For additional commentary, check out my take over on Vital Signs Ministries webpage, “God’s Plan Will be Established.” (Even after the midterms)."