My logical self does not hold much stock in signs or premonitions, but as the campaign went on, I knew something larger was afoot. I had a tugging feeling in my heart that I was supposed to do something, but I didn’t know what. I now know that I was being tested. Whenever God spoke to any of the patriarchs in the Bible, to whom he was going to give a task, He always started the conversation by calling their name, sometimes several times, until they said something tantamount to, ‘Yes, I’m listening.’ He called Adam, Noah, Abraham and Moses in this
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A friend, noticing my relatively recent and rapid enlightenment in Christ, asked if I had experienced a near death encounter. A grin came to my face, and I chuckled slightly, because I had. At the age of 33 I died. I died and was born again, through Christ. To this day, I hold firm in my belief that God used politics to bring me closer to Him. I lost the election, which I see now not only as a blessing but also as God’s will, not only because that’s the way it happened, but because it caused other events to happen in my life which were meant to be. The first causality is that I learned a great lesson in humility. Further, running for office caused me to go to church. Finally, if I had won, then I would have likely never felt called to |
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