A Fight for the Soul of America

During the 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden declared that it was a fight for the soul of America. Now, during the 2024 presidential race, Joe Biden doubled down on the sentiment. If you’re paying attention, you will recognize that the American soul is sick and healing that soul will require a prescription that goes far beyond the election of a president. However, one candidate is more likely to not be good for the soul of America.  

One candidate has a track record for promoting the wellness of the family, a supporter of parental rights and supports the protection of children from all predatory behaviors and is a staunch supporter of overall security and safety. This candidate has been a supporter of first responders, and security at the border, backs the military, and keeps them out of needless conflicts globally. On top of this, the candidate has been a promoter of small business creation, restored balance to international trades, fostered energy dominance and exploration of new technologies, and reduced regulations that crippled businesses from being able to operate.   

Another thing that the candidate has done has been to respond to the needs of the people. Providing help to veterans, and the homeless, creating economic empowerment zones for urban areas, funding HBCUs, helping with prison reform, and much more. This candidate also showed restraint for the office by restoring the balance of power between the federal and states by allowing the states to decide how they would function during the pandemic and choosing whether abortion should be lawful. This candidate has also supported people of faith and their right to worship as the Constitution affords them.  

The opposing candidate has a history of harsh justice towards minorities and fails to execute their present VP office by ignoring the very border that they were authorized to oversee. This candidate sees nothing wrong with the removal of parental rights and would rather children fall under the protection of the state, the public education system, and the transgender agenda. This candidate not only follows in the footsteps of their predecessor, but their political position is also more extreme than the incumbent. According to reports, this candidate has a record that runs far more liberal than that of self-described socialist Bernie Sanders.  

If this is a battle for the soul of America, it isn’t just a fight for political party dominance, it’s a fight for national identity. One candidate supports the ideals of this being “One nation under God,” while the other appears to not have any real intent to want America the beautiful but rather America unplugged.  

People will argue that because of slavery, America was never great and that it runs contrary to this being a nation under God, let alone a Christian nation. Many of these people refuse to understand that before America became a nation, it was not united under a philosophy, constitution, or covenant that sought the betterment of all. Once America became a nation with a constitution, it took a mere 87 years to undo the injustice of those who permitted slavery. Then 101 years passed before the Civil Rights Act was passed. Both issues were resolved by people who believed God is the source of justice and the arbiter of human rights.  

Many early settlers also came here fleeing religious persecution or simply wanted to live where they could worship as they saw fit, not as they were ordered by the government. Since then, this nation has been a harbor for many faiths, not just Christianity. A free nation allows for that. A nation under God also allows for that because God is not a God that forces the worship of Him. We are all free moral agents and can worship whomever we choose to worship or choose to not worship.  

As this is a fight for the soul of the nation, this election is highlighting the ever-increasing divide of the Church in America, and a decision must be made as to whether we desire a nation that is free and blessed or a nation that is under a curse and loses its freedoms. This election will reveal the hearts of America’s people, Christian and otherwise. Our responses to the outcome will also be revealed. My prayer is that we’re reminded that through all of this, from now until the inauguration in January 2025, that the weapons of our warfare or not carnal, but are mighty through God for the pulling down of strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:4).  

What strongholds should be pulling down with the true weapons of our warfare? Paul gave us a list: demolishing arguments and every proud thing that rises against the knowledge of God, we should bring every thought captive so that we are in obedience to God and give punishment to whatever is against the authority of God (vs 5-6). As Christians, this is our fight, and it is the battle that we wage. It is not a fight against people.   

So, let us refrain from engaging in things we ought not to do. Let’s refrain from arguments regarding the candidates. Let’s not allow pride to arise within us, even when it comes to whom God wills to be president. Let our thoughts be captivated by Him and obey Him in all things. That is our fight for the soul of America.