It was very touching to witness President Bush, Mrs. Bush and daughter, Jenna welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to America. It was obvious that the Pope and President Bush have a genuine, Christian affection for each other.

That certainly speaks well of our president as I believe the Pope has a lot more discernment concerning the President’s nature than any of those who have maliciously attacked him. The continuous opposition from the left has undermined Bush when he needed their support the most. Like the Pope, I am a great believer in retribution and the law of reciprocity. As promised in Scripture, we will reap what we sow.
 
The Pope’s visit comes on the heels of the Democratic nominees’ expounding on their Christianity (sans the name of Jesus) last weekend in Pennsylvania. In the Compassion/Religion Forum with Barack and Hillary, there was a lot of talk about religion and God. I imagine Jesus would have liked His name mentioned too, but it wasn’t. After all, if your are going to call yourself, “Christian”, it seems that mentioning the person from whom the name springs is in order. But I suppose that would have been too specific and politically incorrect.

I agree with Barack and Hillary in that I would never be so presumptuous as to say I understand the mind of God. However, I would be quick to qualify that statement with the word, ‘Fully’. God’s ways and thoughts are much higher and deeper than ours. But that does not mean that His ways and thoughts are entirely beyond our understanding. We can know quite a lot about the mind of God from reading the Bible. In the New Testament, Jesus said, “Whosoever has seen me has seen the Father”. The mind of God was/is in Jesus and Christians are taught to let that same mind that is in Christ to also be in you. After all man was made in the image of God.
 
We are told that God is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. We know He loves righteousness and hates evil. Scripture tells us that, “God is angry with the wicked every day”. Proverbs: 6-19 tells us that pride, a lying tongue and the shedding of innocent blood top the list of things that are detestable to God. We know and feel His love, chastisement and forgiveness. So, yes, we can know something about the very mind of God–if we read the Bible!
 
I can see how it may be politically advantageous to dismiss the possibility of knowing what God thinks. This chosen path of ignorance can be very convenient and no one should be so self righteously presumptuous as to say otherwise!–according to Hillary.
 
I wonder how they pray to someone who is all that unknown? Certainly there are mysteries that our finite minds can’t comprehend. But we can still have some insight into the mind of God if we read the Word with child like faith. Pride, which is so detestable to God, is what prevents so many from accepting Christ or reading His Word with the required child like faith. After all, He does call us His children.
 
I really hate to be the one to say, ‘I told you so’, but in my earlier post, I predicted that we would be hearing a lot more God speak from Hillary as we got closer to the election. I just wish I could believe her.