Audacity of Hopelessness

I find it very sad that people have put all their faith and hope on a person that is no better than you or I. If you haven't figured out by the title I am talking about Obama. I want to state up front that I have nothing against the man. He is my president, I will support and pray for him. I may not agree with everything he does, but I battled the lines and voted so I have the right to complain when the time comes. With all that being said, I am talking about the Messiah complex everyone is attaching to him. Everyone assumes he is going to usher in a new era of peace and prosperity. A time when we would not be at war defending our nation from those who want to do us harm. A time when we, as a nation, would not be in economic turmoil and would return to be an economic juggernaut with the dollar being far superior to all other forms of currency.
I have dire news. This will not happen immediately. It may not happen in the next four years. How do I know this? Obama is human. Congress is also full of human beings. Human beings are fallen, and have missed the mark that is the glory of God. Remember when the Democrats took control a couple of years ago. They said they would not write anymore blank checks for Bush and Co. Except they did that. They said they would push for a time table and have our troops home soon. They tried to push and nothing happened. While everyone is caught up in the idea that Obama and the Democrats are going to save the country, let us not forget that the Republicans were not the only ones who helped the country fall to this low.
Sorry for the sidetrack, I was talking about the Messiah hopes everyone has for Obama. He can no more make peace in the middle east than he can make Swiss cheese without holes. He cannot single-handily save the nation from the downward spiral that it is in. His historic win is wonderful. I am glad to be in a country that decided to look past ethnicity and vote for someone they believed in.
I seem to be rambling, what I am trying to say is that our hope should not be put into flesh and blood. Human beings cannot be the basis of all hope. It seems that those who are truly looking for some hope are latching onto whatever they can. There is a hopelessness in America that has not been seen for some time. This hopelessness is derived from the fact that people have put their faith in the stock market and it has tanked. They turn to leaders and they have been disappointing. They are trying to find something that is going to make them feel good. Then along comes a man that is a really good orator. They latch onto him because they see in him something they have been looking for, hope.
As I said we should not put our faith in something that looks like hope, because it may not come. Our hope and our faith needs to rest solely on Jesus Christ. He is the only one that can fill the void in our lives. Hope needs to be seen in Christians who will stand up for those who are less fortunate. We need to take the light out into the dark corners of this great country of ours. The time has come for hopelessness to be vanquished. A great spiritual awakening is coming to the land. There are birth pangs of this awakening happening all over the place. Hopelessness will disappear, we will see a new era of peace. A time where the discussion of the day would be Christ centered and not centered on the latest happenings in Hollywood.
Oh, how I hope and pray for this great day to come when the Lord would be known once more throughout the land. I pray for the coming of the spirit to pour revival out onto all of the land. Come, Lord Jesus, Come.