Read Job.
God loves us all, even barry.
He gave us free will, which means he allows Satan to create liberals. If everyone always was “right” then how would we know when we have made a moral choice or not?
In the same way we elected Ronald Magnus Reagan (and the Bushes who were, overall the right people at the right time) and, more recently, the 2010 Tea Party slam, God expects us to TCB ourselves. When we ask for His intervention, we ask for wisdom and clarity in our thinking, not lightning from Above to lay our “enemies” low.
Intercession prayers are to request relief from suffering — not vanquishing it.
And there is the better answer I’d hoped for...:)
The only thing Satan creates are lies.
John 8:44
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
And liberalism descends from that first lie: "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
In this sense we are all liberals, because we believe in that first lie:
Romans 3
9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
I can attest to this.
I was working on an extremely complex and vitally important problem that others had been working on for nearly two years, and which had been present for years before that. I had been going around and around in circles in my mind for weeks.
Finally, I took a deep breath and meditated on this prayer for a while:
"May the Almighty cause the enemies who rise up against us to be struck down before them. May the Holy One, Blessed is He, preserve and rescue our fighters from every trouble and distress and from every plague and illness, and may He send blessing and success in their every endeavor."
And I quietly prayed in my heart for clarity of thought, wisdom and insight, for respite from my distress, for blessing and success in my endeavor.
I struggled for hours that evening with a terrible sense of crushing soul-wringing inadequacy - who was I to think that I could solve this problem? What hubris to think I was smart enough, clever enough! Perhaps this is what it feels like when you're a fallen soul suddenly steadied by the hand of the Almighty.
And the next day, with unusual serenity and calm, I began unraveling the threads of the problem. As I studied hundreds of pages of documentation striving to learn enough to be able to understand all the different pieces of the puzzle, one line of text in a technical specification caught my eye day after day, and drew my mind back.
Once I was able to perceive the shape of each puzzle piece, they clicked together in my mind and all the avenues of investigation undertaken by other experts over the prior 18 months fell away. I was left staring at the proverbial dead moth stuck in the relay contact, centered on that one line of the technical specification.
The next step was to figure out where the moth came from, and I partnered with an exceedingly clever software engineer for that effort, in cooperation with the compiler and OS vendors who I had been able to persuade to take just one more look at this years-old problem that they had grown quite sick of hearing about.
After careful, painstaking analysis, we found the origin of the moth, and the solution ultimately came down to a single assembly-language instruction in a single function in a ten-year-old operating system library that had been bundled with an old compiler. This solution may have saved countless lives, but we should all fervently pray that we will NEVER have to find out.
Remember, G-d did not part the Red Sea until Moses strode forth and lifted his staff, and stretched out his hand.
"Why do you cry to Me," G-d asked Moses, "Tell the people of Israel to go forward!"
Go forward!