What a week. Rebounding from his controversial loss in 2020, Trump won not only the presidency, but delivered a knockout punch with all swing states voting in his favor and even winning the popular vote by a wide margin. The Senate is now firmly Republican, and it seems likely the House of Representatives will remain Republican as well.

People are processing this in very different ways. Some view it as a direct attack on women and the end of democracy. Others — apparently a majority of Americans — are breathing a sigh of relief that we avoided the radical leftwing agenda of a Harris/Walz presidency.

For me personally, I’m deeply thankful to God for the results that represent at least a partial shift away from radical leftism and back toward the Judeo-Christian values our country was founded upon. We’ve all seen the destruction caused by defunding the police, weak foreign policy, dangerously open borders, oppressive DEI policies, the mutilation and sterilization of teens, and the sheer insanity of men competing in women’s sports. Things were on the verge of getting much worse. Not long ago, we heard whispers of stacking the Supreme Court, abolishing the filibuster, clamping down on free speech, maybe even eliminating the electoral college altogether. Thankfully, those extremes have been averted — at least for now.

When Lot lived in Sodom, he was “greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked, tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds” (2 Peter 2:7-8).

Those verses have long resonated with me and perfectly describe the past 20 years as we witnessed the rapid expansion of wokeism and the corresponding erosion of our freedoms and biblical values in America. It cost good people their careers and their livelihoods. The baker and other creators and entrepreneurs who spent years in court defending their right to act according to their conscience. The journalist who was convicted for exposing Planned Parenthood’s sale of aborted baby parts. The fire chief fired over writing a book and sharing scripture on sexuality. The soldiers who lost their jobs over forced vaccines. We could go on and on.

This moral decline is still very real, but I pray President Trump will be a modern day King Cyrus, a secular ruler that God called his “servant,” who blessed God’s people and allowed them to return to free and open worship of the one true God.

Owen Strachan in his substack article “Morning in America” says it well:

“We have all lived through a long and almost unbroken nightmare. We have been forced to contemplate not only our present darkness, but the possibility of still greater unleashing of darkness through the presidency of Kamala Harris. We have trembled at that reality; we have wept; we have felt great surging waves of fear, anxiety, doubt, discouragement, and hopelessness at times. But for now, we have been granted a reprieve, a temporary stalling of evil as driven by the modern political left. God has shown up. God has answered our prayers. Let us use this truth to keep praying, and keep hoping, and keep loving. Let us not be weary in well-doing (Galatians 6:9); by the power of the Spirit in us, let us excel still more (1 Thessalonians 4:2).”

There’s still much work to be done, especially in the pro-life movement and biblical marriage. It’s hard to ever imagine returning to a pre-Obergefell world. Nevertheless, this week was an act of God’s mercy, a win for the American people, and a historic night in the history of American politics.