THE RESULTS OF THE 2024  PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN AMERICA

The Vicissitudes and the echo of the narrative utterances of proclamations regarding Trump being elected President of the United States for the second time. As I read the various news headlines, I noticed that they reveal varied arrays of mixed feelings and emotions. Just to name a few:

• Shocking and dismayed 

• Democracy Derailed and Republic Eradicated 

• A win for the Confederacy -Back to the dictates of Jim Crow Laws and segregation 

• The Re-election is a win of supremacy’, Xenophobia, Racism, and Hate.

• Shades of wanting to return to the time and  the era of the Civil Wars between the North and the An intentional attempt to dis-honor any recognition of Diversity, Equity, Equality, and Inclusion. 

• Rendering a disrupted blow to dismantle democracy as we know it

Due to the aforementioned focus of the narrative utterance of the Presidential Election I am compelled to digress to the Biblical Scriptures of Act 9:1-19, which denotes the happening of Apostle Paul, Known in the Bible as “Saul’s Conversion” . 

He held a total dislike and the breathing of a murderous threat toward against anyone who considered themselves to be a Lord’s disciple. He was on his way to the synagogues in Damascus to meet with the high priests to get ‘letters of authority’ to take the Lord’s disciples as prisoners. However, on the path of the journey, he encountered a situation. Suddenly, a light was flashed upon him, he fell crashing to the ground, rendering both blind and speechless, and he could eat or drink for three days. 

In the throes of such conditions on his way to Damascus the Lord called on a disciple named Ananias! in a vision. The Lord told him to go to house of Judas ask for, meet with a man from Tarsus, and  pray for him. Ananias came prayed and the man from Tarsus speech and sight was restored and was given food to eat. Paul experienced a conversion his name was changed to Saul and also many other changed took place in his life, such as:

• His priorities and his Faith and Belief

• His relationships and his goals 

• His values and his attitude

• His habits and lifestyle

• And spiritual and devotional life

Such a plethora of incidents and lifestyle changes is still yet possible in the modern times we now live. Therefore, as we pray and hold out Hope of Faith and Belief for The President-elect of 2024

Abraham Lincoln former President of the by-gone era once said.”Be sure to put your feet in the right direction for a ‘Firm Stand’, Then proceed to ‘Stand Firm” as you were to be and you will ‘Stand Firm’

Steve Braxton, Founder/CEO, Marketplace Ministries, Inc, Critical Writer, Global Blogger, Author of Non-fiction Books and Poetic Stanza