Don't make Obama your god!

I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; (Exodus 20:2-5)

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
(Leviticus 19:4)

Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be enquired of at all by them? (Ezekiel 14:3)

Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen. (1 John 5:21)

I plead with you Americans, and especially African-Americans not to make Barack Obama your god. This is not a good thing in the eyesight of the Lord Jesus Christ. I love Barak Obama as a man, but he is not my god. I will not shed a tear over the things he is promising to do, but I will weep for the sin of this country which has turned its back on the Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing this post because I received this e-mail from a beloved African-American Christian sister. I love her zeal for God, but I weep for her love for Barak Obama and his family. Here’s the e-mail below:

Family & Friends,
Trust me, you will find the attached enlightening and informative. I must admit I never thought of Sen. Obama's ascending to the “White House” in this vein. INTERESTING!

Why white America perhaps fears Michelle more than Barack. Excerpts from a 'Jack & Jill politics' newsletter: ...as hard as it is to accept a black president, it’s even harder to accept a black first lady.
First Lady has always held a beloved sentimental mother/wife of the nation symbolism. Conservatives are not ready to have to look at this very BLACK woman with her degrees and her fierceness and see her as the epitome of the American mother/wife.
This will be a first for white people. They do not want this black woman in the Whitehouse as their first lady. That New Yorker cartoon was actually about Michelle - she was its focal point…..look closely... She is the leader, the one starting the “revolution” they want you to imagine. MSN BC’s Chris Matthews said, in the course of covering the Obama candidacy, 'He (Barack Obama) brings none of the ‘bad stuff, you know?” By ‘Bad Stuff’, he meant the legacy of [whites] enslaving Africans in this country, keeping them as second-class citizens until 1965, a mere 11 years before this country celebrated its 200th anniversary. You know, ‘the original sin’, or ‘the birth defect’, as Condi Rice called it.
Barack escapes this 'bad stuff' only because his mother was white and may have had ancestors involved in the slave trade; and also because Barack's father was not African American. He was full blooded African and therefore Barack had no ancestors enslaved by America - and so the white guilt factor is missing when they think of Him. HOWEVER, NO SUCH LUCK WITH MICHELLE! Michelle Obama is a direct threat and lightening bolt against White Superiority. Because, she’s Black… VISIBLY BLACK… But it's important to note, she does not, in any way, shape, or form, contour to the acceptable Black Pathologies that enable White Supremacy to sigh with relief. [welfare mother, fatherless child, druggie, etc.] Michelle was raised in a neighborhood. In a home With TWO parents. No child revolving in and out of jail. Raised by a Black man who not only provided for his family, but did so, WITH A DISABILITY. Her mother had a working class job - secretary- but it was taken ONLY after she had seen her youngest child settle into HIGH SCHOOL. Michelle Obama’s poise, her confidence, her aura - that was created by that humble Black man, who by all accounts, adored her. He told her that she is worthy, and so, when you have that told to you by the first man who loves and protects you, you seek that validation of that in your choice of mate, you’ll settle for nothing less, and Michelle hasn’t.
Michelle Obama, doesn’t fit any of the acceptable Black pathologies. And when you don’t fit the acceptable Black pathologies, then you must be destroyed. Michelle Obama has become the face of the Black America whose existence is routinely denied by this country. Think about it. In ONE generation, the face of this 'Invisible America' has gone from living on the top floor of a bungalow, to the possibility of living in The White House. And yet, Michelle Obama, refuses to say " I’m special”, in order to give white America its usual security blanket [that she is one of the exceptions rather than the rule], So what should be done? Beat her down into submission. Michelle Obama represents everything we black women want our daughters to be. When we stand up for her we stand up for ourselves. No other women in the world are more neglected and abused as African women period. Michelle looks like [our] daughters, her daughters look like us. We love the way Barack looks at her we adore the way he looks at his daughters. The Obamas represent the hope that we can be loved by our men and they will support us in whatever we do. Little African American girls need a vision and Dream of what it is like to be loved by a man who looks just like them. Is America ready for a First Lady who looks like her? A regular black woman? Not a passable biracial curly haired girl that they call black, but a regular black woman from the south side of Chicago ? With dark skin? Is she going to be the face of The Woman on the largest pedestal in the country? A self-confessed "loud-mouth” black woman? If the Obamas succeed, it turns white supremacy upside down. And not because a black man is in the White House; but, because a black woman will be there who didn’t have to come in the back door to lie in bed with the president.

Black people please understand that America is sinful. We are not a righteous nation with a heart after the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact this economy is not failing because of a simple oversight, it is failing because of sin: GREED. Barak Obama cannot do a thing to bring salvation to the black man, or any of the American people. The Lord Jesus Christ put it best:

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)

Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4:10-12)

There is no other way. There is not a black way, a white way, a any color way, Christ Jesus our Lord is the only way. Putting a black man in office is not going to stop white supremacy. In fact it may fuel it even more. Hatred of such sort is sin; it is not from the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Barack Obama is not God. He is not the Savior. He will (I say this with confidence) not save nor fix any of the problems that are plaguing this country. Our minds need to turn unto the Lord Jesus Christ, the One that sits at the Right Hand of the Father!

Do not hold Obama or any political figure over our God. This is idolatry. I cry when I see Christians wearing T-Shirts pledging their support to a man they know not. Yes, he can talk real well, and is very intellectual. But he is not God Almighty. The Lord is opposed to such things. When cry tears and fall out because Obama said something so beautiful, is the Lord smiling. Let’s see:

Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 9:23-24)

Do you see any joy in God when we give men the praise? No, so stop praising Obama, and even McCain. They have done no wonderous works. Don’t make man your god, my friends!!!!!

And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost. But the word of God grew and multiplied. And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark. (Acts 12:21-25)