Reaping the whirlwind
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Editor,
Everyone hopes for good government at all levels; therefore, most of us have fulfilled our civic privilege and responsibility from the time we were old enough to vote. I recall my dad and his father discussing some issues when FDR and Wendell Willkie were the candidates for national office. My dad was a Bible student, concerned about moral issues like honesty and fidelity. As a North Dakota farmer, his dad worried about the economy, the price of wheat and the cost of machinery; would the drought drive them all from their land.
Growing up on the farm, it was not difficult for me to understand the simple truth that “we reap what we sow” (Galatians 6:7). When dad sowed wheat, we didn’t anticipate a crop of wild oats. As kids growing up, we sowed some wild oats and as dad predicted, we suffered for it.
After 18 months of TV ads, public debates and personal revelations, the two candidates fighting for the office of president have convinced most of us that we would prefer that neither of them serve us as our President.
I believe we’re witnessing the law of reciprocity. It’s payback time. We’re reaping what we’ve sown. We’ve disregarded God’s laws of honesty and fidelity and others; we’ve departed from the truth of Scripture to follow the philosophies of men. The Old Testament prophet Hosea, declared to Israel, “you’ve sown the wind, you’ll reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7). It’s coming.
Washington will not resolve the issues of the day, regardless of which party is in control. Our responsibility as citizens is to “pray for all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity” (1 Timothy 2:2).
I did vote, absentee. I voted in support the Bill of Rights; the sanctity of all human life; legal immigration only; and among other things, a Supreme Court that will protect the Constitution of the United States.
Harvey A. Town
Polson
