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God and Government

...for three years I have prayed a lot for our President and his leadership. Why? Because we are being lead to a destiny that God has not designed for nations, ours included.

I have lived in the United States of America for 75 great years. Through those years, many things have concerned me enough to pray for correction and change as we progressed toward our present mess and mixture of political correctness, governmental confusion, and cultural chaos.

But for three years, I have prayed a lot for our President and his leadership as I have for no other President. Why? Because we are being lead to a destiny that God has not designed for any nation.

God's desire and design for nations, ours included, is that they will "love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and...love your neighbor as yourself." What a concept. Focusing on knowing and loving Him results in people loving and caring for one another. His promise is that when we keep our devotion to Him pure and simple as just described, all the complications of life are minimized.

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Caring about pleasing Him with our simple devotion, causes us to desire to care and love others, and His final promise?...everything we need to enjoy life to the fullest, will be available to us in abundance. There is one problem with this way of living, it requires I am the last in line for His blessings. It means He is first in all considerations and I am last. It requires the "me first and last" attitude to have no place in our lives. Think about the difference this can make in our lives as a nation and all other nations.

Why is this important? As you can see for yourself, we are a very long way from  these ideals. We have become so self-absorbed that we have destroyed our lives and the lives of others closest to us just to "have it my way." Now here is the focal point of my concern. When we are being led by a parent, teacher, pastor, congressman, senator, or president whose focus is upon their own "success" and personal fame, fortune, reputation, and agenda – self-absorbed – then whole families, schools, churches, businesses, communities, and governments spiral downward, not upward, into the kind of morass and mess we are now experiencing at every level of life in our nation. Especially in our government!

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Please listen to what God says about the kind of "leadership" we have in the White House and...in many cases, your house or your school, etc.: "Can unjust leaders claim that God is on their side - leaders who devise evil by law? They gang up against the lifestyle of the righteous and condemn innocent blood." Psalm 94:20-21.

Where do we go from here? "Even when there is no reason for hope, keep on hoping and believing God will in fact fulfill His promises to you." The truth is hope without God, is no hope after all. But, when we are down and out, and feeling hopeless, God, the source of all hope, is waiting eagerly to meet you at your point of need and redeem your life and circumstances. The same is true for our nation. Keep praying and hoping!

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