Why I'm not Worried About the Mid-term Elections

     I am not worried about the mid-term elections because God has never required cooperative vessels to fulfill His purposes.  If He did, the Exodus story would have gone like this:

  Moses:  The Lord commands you to let my people go!
  Pharaoh:  No!
  Lord:  Well okay then, I'll just wait until a more open minded Pharaoh is on the throne.

Oops, wait, that's not what happened. God's plan was to deliver Israel from Egypt 400 years, to the day, from when they came in. He did not need Pharaoh to have a change of heart. Pharaoh never did have a change of heart. God just made the consequences of defying Him more unpleasant than letting millions of slaves have permanent time off.
     But Pharaoh was a political leader and an unbeliever, surely God needs His own people to cooperate. If that was true, the calling of Moses might have sounded like this:

   Lord:  I am calling you to lead my people out of Egypt.
   Moses:  Not qualified. Thanks for thinking of me, but no.
   Lord:  Would you mind taking a message to Aaron?

God did not give Moses the pass or play option. He had chosen Moses and would not allow a substitution, as if God's will was like basketball. God provided Himself as Moses' divine helper and Aaron as his human helper, but God didn't need permission from Moses to use him any more than He needed it from the bush.
     Of course, the best example of an uncooperative believer is Jonah. Jonah had serious stinkin' thinkin' and, if the revival in Nineveh was a church ministry, we would blacklist Jonah from even handing out the programs. But God did not reassign the job to someone more willing, nor did He perform a divine version of a Vulcan mind meld to make him willing. Once again, God just made the consequences of disobedience so unpleasant that Jonah decided to visit Nineveh after all.
     I used to tell my children, "You can do God's will the easy way or you can do God's will the hard way, but you WILL do God's will." So, though I am disgusted with the attempt to assassinate the moral reputation of Supreme Court pick Kavanaugh, and I am sick to death of lying political ads, I am not afraid that God will somehow lose control of our country if the election does not go favorably. If God's will was dependent on man's, man would be sovereign. I will vote for those who best represent Christian values because bad political leaders have the power to make life difficult for us, but they do not have the power to make life difficult for God. God is sovereign and, although not running unopposed, I refuse to live as if He was being voted out of office.