I Would Not Worry So Much

Field Marshal Moltke (Prussian) identified 4 types of Military officer. you can google that yourself but the 4rh type ....IE Dumb & Energetic best describes the BO personality trait (They cause things to happen but the wrong things so they always cause trouble).....BINGO!

 

I certainly am no fan of the current POTUS, OTOH I tend to agree with the old adage that a nation pretty much gets the leadership that it deserves.

The majority of the voting populace of the US (or at least those who took the trouble to vote) twice decided that the current occupant of 1600 PA Ave. was the person they wanted to serve as POTUS.

I am no prophet in the Biblical sense of that term, so I won't proclaim that the outcome of the last two POTUS elections was definitely approved by Almighty God; but, likewise, I'm not so sure that it wasn't.

While our nation isn't a theocracy like OT Israel, it seems to me that obviously we as Bible-believing Christians haven't learned very much from sacred history.

I realize that, in an election race for POTUS, we're not selecting a national pastor, but I do believe that we ought to at least consider a candidate's value system and performance record when selecting a person to support and/or vote for.

Neither one of the two major party candidates had a flawless background, and I, for one, didn't vote for either of them.

You can say what you want to about either one of them, but, let's face it, both are mortal men---and consequently are (just like all of us) sinners by birth.

I just wonder if, instead of merely criticizing them all the time, we'd spend as much (if not more) time praying for them, that maybe their decisions might just be more in tune with the values we find in our Bibles.

After all, the God we say that we honor and serve is THE ONE that's ultimately in control of all things. He is the One who has the final say in all men's lives---including whoever it may be who holds the office of POTUS.

My point is this: God's Word (see I Timothy 2:1-3) tells us to pray for those in authority over us. Perhaps if we'd take to heart what that passage tells us to do, we just might find it much easier to live in a society---evil as it is---wherein we would find it a bit more quiet and peaceful than it is.

 

I am probably wrong again, but I think that God just allows some things to happen. I don't think that God would put an evil man in office to attack His church.

I agree that we have to pray for all those in authority. It was really hard to pray for Evan Bayh, a uber liberal who pretends to be a moderate.

Proverbs 21:1 (KJV) The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

 

I never said that having the current POTUS that we do was a direct result of God ordaining it to be so.

Much of what we face in today's evil society is most likely simply because sinful people are merely doing what they are most prone to do---sin.

If we're honest with ourselves, all of us at one time or another have either thought about, or have actually done things that were/are not the best example(s) of how a Christian ought to conduct him-/her- self.

A cursory glance of the lives of the Bible's so-called "Hall of Fame of the Faith" in Hebrews 11 will reveal that most (if not all) of the individuals mentioned therein had lapses in their walk with the Lord. Even the Apostle Paul struggled with this (see Romans 7:15ff).

I, for one, don't necessarily believe that our current POTUS occupies that position for the sole purpose of, to use your words, "attack His [God's] church." Heaven knows that we already have enough people whose agenda seems to be doing so.

All I merely attempted to point out was that maybe...just maybe if we'd be more concerned about consistently doing what God's Word and the Holy Spirit tells us to be doing, we just might be a bit more pleasing to the One to whom we must all give an account once we leave this present life.

 

Yes, I think that the government has authority over the people. When bad people like 0bam@ and Bayh (either father or son) are elected, they exercise authority as represented by the fact that they can use guns to compel you to obey.

We infer that Sodom might have been spared if there had been ten good men in the entire rotten place but there were not. Is the greatest liberty ever given to the human race--the USA--to be destroyed by 0bam@ and the world plunged into total darkness because of God's work or because of the work of evil people in the USA who hate the light?