A media free zone

I am declaring myself to be in a media free zone today. I listened to regular radio last night on my drive home and it was wall to wall Obama. The nonstop breathless comparisons of Obama to Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Reagan all in one are ridiculous for a man who hasn't even been sworn in yet. People are going to be awfully disappointed tomorrow morning when they find out the economy is still in the doldrums, the is still war and hatred in the world and their mortgage company still expects a payment this month.

At around noon today Obama takes office. I wish I could be as excited as so many other people, but I really wish that someone other than an far left, rabidly pro-abortion black man was the first to break the color barrier. In other words, somebody other than Barack Obama (J.C. Watts would have been nice...) This is a "historic event" (perhaps the most overused term of the year, every inauguration is a historic event) but it is also a sad one. It is a great testimony to our nation that since John Adams assumed the Presidency from George Washington in 1797 we have an unbroken string of peaceful transfers of power. Even when Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated, our system worked and it is working again today. But it is sad that this man, of all men, is the one taking office today.

I am planning on spending some time at noon today in prayer, praying that God in His sovereign mercy will change the heart of Barack Obama as it pertains to the murder of the unborn. Proverbs 21:1 says: The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. God can change Barack Obama's heart. In fact only God can change his heart. I am praying for our nation to repent for the blood of millions of unborn innocents that has been shed in this country, sacrificed on the altar of choice and profit. I know these verses in Ezekiel are speaking of Israel and not directly applicable to America, but the theme is similar and the words are chilling.

20 And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter 21 that you slaughtered my children and delivered them up as an offering by fire to them? 22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood. Ezekiel 16: 20-22

So let us pray today for repentance, for forgiveness, for the changed heart of a ruler. If today is not a day that inspires prayer, what day is?