“When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.” Proverbs 28:2
September 4, 2024
Our comparatively young nation has known many periods of social and political disorder from the very beginning, through the pre-Civil era of the 1850s and down to our upcoming election. A study of the spiritual decline of the northern kingdom of Israel after King Solomon’s death reveals the close connection between unrighteousness and political instability. When a population descends into confusion of thought, an inversion of values (calling evil good and good evil), self-indulgence, a growing bureaucracy, and general loss of moral integrity, especially among its leaders, the longing for wise and righteous leadership is the impulse of desperate citizens. Our nation is not immune to those who seek to subvert our freedom through the political quest for absolute power, rewriting our national history, and disregarding our Constitution. A sense of impending doom, if a certain presidential candidate is elected, ratchets up fear and predictions of coming catastrophe. Christians need to be praying for men and women of understanding to emerge in the electoral process and the sense of voters to recognize those who espouse a Christian worldview.
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“O Lord God, guide me and my fellow believers toward heeding the call to be a light in the darkness.”