A Borrowed Razor

The recent election in Massachusetts brought to mind the strange title of a sermon I read many years ago – “Shaving with a Borrowed Razor.” This unusual phrase is found in the seventh chapter of Isaiah. After promising a “future” king for Israel - the virgin born child - God tells Israel that he will use a godless, Gentile king to bring an “immediate” judgment to the rebellious people of God.

In other words, in His sovereignty, God can use anyone or anything to bring about His will.

I was thrilled to hear that Scott Brown was elected to fill the seat of liberal, Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts. The irony is that the Health Care bill, that was framed as a tribute to Ted Kennedy, has been dealt a critical blow by this election result.

As a conservative, I have “many” issues with this bill. As a Christian, I have “one” major problem. It includes provisions for using my tax money to pay for the murder of the innocent unborn. If a doctor were to go through a hospital nursery killing the newborns there, he would be considered insane and would be arrested for murder. If he does the same thing only hours earlier in the delivery room, he is considered a caring physician. This is abhorrent reasoning, and to think that I was going to be “forced” to pay for it.

So this is the reason for my Biblical notation above. Scott Brown is a fiscal conservative, but did you know he is pro-abortion just like Ted Kennedy? It appears that God has used the seat of a leading liberal pro-abortionist, won by a conservative pro-abortionist, to answer my prayer to stop this ungodly bill with this awful provision.

Once again, God has shown His sovereignty and his mercy to Christians by ironically “shaving with a borrowed razor.”
Proverbs 6:17 “the Lord hates hands that shed innocent blood.”

The Ship of State Turns Slowly

In other words, no matter how popular you are, don't rock the boat too much.

There is a place for change as society changes, but our government has been so stable because nothing moves too quickly. That is a frustrating truth to most of us, because we want instantaneous results. But our founders showed their brilliance by establishing this kind of structure for governing our nation.

The election of a Republican, even a moderate one, would be impossible in Democratic Massachusetts if the Obama administration had not tried to turn the Ship of State too radically.

That is the lesson of yesterday's election.