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Follow The Leader
Remember the wonderful children’s games we played, Home Sheep Run, Simon Says, Follow The Leader, Mumblety Peg. and Hopscotch, to name a few? When the street lights came on you better head for home. Games we played in those days were
fun and highly competitive. Follow The Leader was especially challenging, especially if the leader was the bold adventurous type. I remember some falling into a stream because they were unable to make the jump. My cousin broke his arm trying to make a Tarzan leap from one tree branch to another. Those were care free days when school opened each morning with the Lords prayer and the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
We had Civic classes where we learned how our government was originally formed and how it was intended to function, how we became the United States, One Nation Under God. We were taught the difference between a democracy, a republic, and socialism and a monarchy. We were taught that we lived in a republic, a political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. It is a democratic form of government, a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, exercised either directly or through elected representatives. In both cases the common people are considered as the primary source of political power. In other words, we rely on elected or appointed representatives to comply with what “We The People” consider proper, judicious, levelheaded, rational, reasonable, sound, well-founded, well-grounded, wise and beneficial to the general populace.
In spite of set backs by early failures, wars, political upheavals, slavery, and maltreatment of native Americans, this nation struggled to its feet and became a freedom loving world power second to none. Although a young nation in comparison to nations like England, France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, America prospered chiefly because she was founded as a nation under God. Let us make no mistake about it, no other nation has ever prospered like America because no other nation has ever so boldly proclaimed to be a nation under God.
As we view our nation today, we are a far cry from what was intended by our founding forefathers. Our nation has progressed to the point where we are about to destroy ourselves from within. Our leadership has been promoted to their level of
incompetence, they are serving their own interests rather than those of “We The People”. We ask ourselves the question, how did we, in the short time of a little over 200 years, rise from obscurity to world prominence only to now find ourselves on the brink of economic and social obliteration? Is it today’s leadership?, If so, how did they become the leaders, the representatives of the people? For the answer to that question we have only to look back to the last election.
We The People chose the leaders after listening to all the issues and promises and commitments of those seeking to serve the nation. It could very well be that “We The People” neglected one important consideration. Was We The People’s selection pleasing to God whom we claimed to be our sovereign above all, or did we leave Him out of the equation? Our nation has been, over the past decade or so, systematically turning away from God. Should we not therefore expect to see God turn away from this nation? When we professed to be a Christian nation and
prospered it was because We The People and especially our leadership acknowledged that we were One Nation Under God. We trusted and relied on God and He came through for the nation. It was acknowledged that it was God that established this Christian nation under Christian leaders. The word of God
specifically tells us emphatically that God, “the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men” Daniel 4:17&25.
We must remember that “the powers that be are ordained of God” (Romans 13:1) and that “the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will,” and sometimes, He even “setteth it up over it the basest of men” (Daniel 4:17).
Now then, if “We The People” voted them into office, how can we say that God raised them up? If we believe the Word of God, that He rules in the kingdom of men and sets up the rulers, isn’t it logical then to assume that He can easily control the minds of a nation if He so desires?
Since God set up our leadership, what right do we have to criticize them, especially when it is we the people that voted them into office? Our quarrel is not with God or the leadership, our quarrel is with ourselves. The only way to reverse this condition is for our nation to turn back to our Lord and Savior. “ For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee” (Psalms 86:4).
Solomon’s Porch Verse for the Day
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray,
and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14
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