A new president, and a hope

Don't freak out my conservative friends I speak of a different hope. Though there are certainly both very exciting elements and some troubling ones with the recent election, God is in control, and he wasn't surprised by the outcome. Though I hope for some positive changes, especially in regards to foreign policy and the face our our nation to the rest of the world, I am glad my hope does not lay in a human leader. But knowing that I am a moderate and a torn voter I have had a number of people in the recent month bring up Psalms 146: 3,4 passage

"Put not your trust (hope) in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs he returns to the eath; on that very day his plans perish."

Though I love this passage and find great encouragement in it, I find its wielding as a reason to not vote for Obama, a weak one (do not many conservatives and Christians in particular place their security and hope in the Republican party, in the economy, or in their bank accounts?) Are these not equally pointless?

The best part about this passage is that it gives me the perfect in to talk about the rest of this passage which describes us placing our hope and trust in a God who "executes justice for the oppressed...gives food to the hungry...sets prisoners free...opens the eyes of the blind...lifts up those who are bowed down...loves righteousness...watches over the sojourners...upholds the widow and the fatherless...but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin...The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the Lord!"

Now that is someone worth following! But here is my question to those that claim to actually follow this God, myself included. If we claim Him as our hope, and we also claim that we are his body and are to be his witness to the nations, what are we as the church doing to be apart of God's passions for the things above? Or maybe first we might ask ourselves not if we are doing anything but if we have even thought about what this would look like?