I have spoken to many people who are weary of this election season. Tired of the divide in our nation as we are overwhelmed by seemingly insurmountable issues.  
In 1863, the United States was at war against itself, brother against brother. The news of battle deaths and injuries ate at the fabric of the nation struggling over the abolition of slavery. President Abraham Lincoln called for a day of fasting and prayer on April 30.
He wrote in the proclamation, “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
“It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.”
It would be two more years of carnage including the assassination of Lincoln.
Americans need to humble ourselves before God, repenting of our misgivings and thanking Him for the blessings He has given this nation.
Daniel 2:21 says, “He (God) changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.”
Let us go to the polls and vote remembering God is the one who is in control as we place our trust in Him, our eternal Hope.
Ken Locke is corps administrator of The Salvation Army in Warsaw and director of the Greater Warsaw Ministerial Association. Have ideas for this column? Go to www.gwma.info.