Republican candidate Ted Cruz's father, who I should remind you is a bit of a crazy person whose thoughts must be taken with a pillar of salt, tells the story of how God Himself sent word to Ted Cruz to run for president.
My son Ted and his family spent six months in prayer seeking God's will for this decision. [...] It was a Sunday. We were all at his church, First Baptist Church in Houston, including his senior staff. After the church service, we all gathered at the pastor's office. We were on our knees for two hours seeking God's will. At the end of that time, a word came through his wife, Heidi. And the word came, just saying, "Seek God's face, not God's hand." And I'll tell you, it was as if there was a cloud of the holy spirit filling that place. Some of us were weeping, and Ted just looked up and said, "Lord, here am I, use me. I surrender to you, whatever you want."
If the face of God turns out to be Ted Cruz, that would be a hell of a surprise.
There’s not much to add to that. It is a bit confusing, though: If we listen to our fine American politicians and their hangers-on, during each election God tells a large pile of them to run for president. Most of those candidates go on to humiliate themselves badly, which suggests God perhaps is playing some very mean-spirited tricks on them.
But Cruz's family is quite convinced God wants Ted Cruz to be president, and wants him to be president for very specific godly reasons. Cruz's wife Heidi has also declared that a Ted Cruz presidency would exist "to show this country the face of the God we serve."
So, doesn't that sound pleasant? Wonder who would become Secretary of Ted Cruz's Personal God, in a Ted Cruz administration. Maybe it'd be lumped in with Secretary of Defense.