We put too much trust in human leaders. For some reason, we feel that they are the ones from whom our security and safety derives. Nothing could be further from the the truth.
God wants us to turn to him for leadership. He wants us to follow him because everything he says and does is good, right and perfect. However, mankind rejected him, not just once, but over and over again.
The Israelites were chosen to be the people through which God would spread his Gospel and through which a Savior would come to the earth. He wanted Israel to follow him but they wanted a king to follow.
God granted their request but it still grieved him that he was rejected and a man put in his place. The first king of Israel was Saul. He was chosen by God but, in the end, rejected God and was defeated by David.
While David was a man after God’s heart, he made horrible mistakes. His sins were enormous. Still, he turned to God and God answered him. From that point on, the kings of Israel were a mixed bunch who mostly strayed from God to follow the idols that were made by man’s own hands.
Over and over again, mankind makes the same mistake. We look to our leader as something larger than life. The truth is, they are simply other men and women. They are sinners like the rest of us. Some follow God but most do not.
They stray from God and think that they and those who think like them are the true answer to life’s problems. It makes no sense but still they persist in their beliefs and those who follow them do as well.
In this country, we are on the eve of an election for our President for the next four years. There is a sharp divide amongst the voters. Each side thinks that they are better than the other. Many have contempt and worse for those who follow the other candidate.
It is this kind of behavior that leads to hate, destruction and physical violence. It leads brothers to kill one another in the name of what they believe in. It isn’t a war but it may become one. There is nothing worse than a war that pits the citizens of a nation against each other.
In the end, there is no winner. The country loses.
I pray that the election is fair and safe. I pray that no one cheats and that no one resorts to violence to stop others from exercising their right to vote. I pray that whomever is elected President, puts his trust and faith in God.
In the end, whoever becomes President was put in place by God. Sometimes, he blesses us with those who, for the most part, follow him. Sometimes, he curses us with exactly what we deserve.
My fear is that once God lifts his hand of protection from this nation, that there will be no return until the day Jesus comes back to claim his church.
While I fear that former, I look forward to the latter with joy, peace and hope. My leader is God and my homeland is heaven. I am passing through this life and will try to do what God asks me to do.
I will not place my faith in mankind because I am one of them and I know how great a sinner I am. There is not one of us who is better than the other.
We are all sinners who need to be saved. Our sins may be different to us but to God, they are all the same and the judgement is death unless you accept the forgiveness Jesus bought for you by dying in your place. No matter what you believe, there will come a day when every living thing who has ever lived on earth will confess Jesus Christ as Lord.
Philippians 2:5-11
Have this same attitude in yourselves which was in Christ Jesus [look to Him as your example in selfless humility],
who, although He existed in the form and unchanging essence of God [as One with Him, possessing the fullness of all the divine attributes—the entire nature of deity], did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped or asserted [as if He did not already possess it, or was afraid of losing it]; but emptied Himself [without renouncing or diminishing His deity, but only temporarily giving up the outward expression of divine equality and His rightful dignity] by assuming the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men [He became completely human but was without sin, being fully God and fully man].
After He was found in [terms of His] outward appearance as a man [for a divinely-appointed time], He humbled Himself [still further] by becoming obedient [to the Father] to the point of death, even death on a cross.
For this reason also [because He obeyed and so completely humbled Himself], God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW [in submission], of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess and openly acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord (sovereign God), to the glory of God the Father.