Through Samuel as prophet, priest and judge, God had ruled over Israel directly - they lived in a Theocracy. But they wanted a king with flesh on him, someone they could see and touch, and prove to the other nations they were on par with them. They wanted "a king to lead us and go out before us and fight out battles" (1 Sam 8:20).
As much as the people put their trust in a king, just as Samuel had warned them, the kings tended to bring the people more problems then solutions, more cost than benefit. It was only those times when the people turned to the Lord did they truly prosper, only the Lord could protect them from warring nations around them, only the Lord could be their banner and their shield.
We're deep into election season. In a few weeks we'll have an opportunity to perhaps shift the balance of power in the senate, ejecting Leader Reid from his throne and setting another "king" of the senate in power. And, if all goes as many hope it will go, in two years we can turn the presidential dial from the left to the right. And then, all will be well, we will have a king to lead us and go out before us to fight our enemies.
Really? All will be well if we can get the socialists out of power and put in capitalists? Not! It may be an improvement, perhaps we will be able to actually drill on public lands and open the pipeline between Canada and the US. Taxes may even get shifted around a bit. There will certainly be a different slant on the rhetoric.
But do you suppose that right-leaning politicians will be essentially different than left-leaning ones? Considering the true state of the Union, where morality is turned on its head, drugs (legal and illegal) are the driving force of our economy, when we have become tthe largest debtor nation in history and the godless, near inhuman Islamic Fundamenttalist Wacko Terrorists are everywhere - what do you think the chances are that Washington will be our savior?
I'm not hopeful - in them. But I am hopeful in Him. Regardless of who is president or controls the balance of power in congress, Jesus Christ is King of my life! And, He is my Savior. He will provide me the victory, even if I lose everything here (again). If we, as a nation, turn our hearts toward Him, he will give us the victory, even against such odds.
Regardless, however, what we do as a nation, I will follow the Lord. I will put my trust in Him. I will rest in His power and trust in His goodness. "And my God will meet all [my] needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus" (Phil 4:19). Jus' Sayn.
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