The Lord's Anointed

Few would argue the point that America, even the world, is in quite a state.  The Islamist terrorists are taking their unholy war to nearly every spot on the globe.  The war on poverty has proven to be bankrupt after 50 years of pumping in hundreds of billions of dollars only to have more people dependent on the government than ever.  The war on drugs is being won, however the winners are the drug cartels and our biggest impact on the criminal element has been in the recent movement to decriminalize the use of marijuana.

In the past, America has been the leader in pushing back the bad guys and lifting up the helpless.  In recent years, our red line was crossed by a despot of  third-world country with no push back from us. The helpless citizens of Ukraine have been pounded by Russia and we wag our tongues and point our fingers but don't even provide weapons for our ally against its aggressor.  And, the rogue terrorist state of Iran negotiates every concession it wanted from us while we get nothing except a "deal" that allows a path to nuclear weaponry in the end.

Oh, did I mention that we have incurred more national debt in the last 7 years than in all the rest of our history?  We are at $19 trillion in the red currently and more than $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities.  Have you ever heard the phrase, "we owe our soul to the company store?"  It referred to the poor who lived and worked on company land, buying necessities on company credit, leaving them forever in debt with no possibility of ever being free from its control.  It seems that America is the new poor and China is the new company.

And to fix all of this mess, which Obama still blames solely on Bush, we are about to select a new leader of the free (really?) world.  While Miss Reset Button on Russia, Lost an Ambassador in Benghazi and Scrubbed Her Email Server, Hilary is still not out of thee race; it is beginning to look like we might be choosing from either Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

Which one of these two do you think has the moral compass, the intestinal fortitude, the critical thinking skills, the personal vision and the diplomatic ability to turn back the tide of the World-wide geo-political Tsunami about to sweep away every remnant of freedom and prosperity off the map?  Yeah, me neither.  While I have more faith in one than in the other, I don't have any real hope that either of these two are the Lincoln or the Churchill of our day.

Nonetheless, whoever is elected will be the Lord's Anointed.  What?  Are you serious?  Yes!  "There is no authority except that which is established by God.  The authorities that exist have been established by God" (Rom 13:1).  Even if Hillary makes it?  Yep, even so.  Even Cyrus, king of Persia.  Who?

After the Israelites were carried off into Babylonian captivity, it was not a great Hebrew leader that arose to bring them back to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple, it was the world-dominating Cyrus of Persia. “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: 'The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among you may go up, and may the Lord their God be with them' ” (2 Chron 36:23).

So, who could God use to bring peace and prosperity in our time?  Anyone, He chooses - even Biden or Trump.  And yes, dare I say, Hillary.  The future of America and the world, for that matter, is in God's hands.  That future might be long and prosperous or a rather short and bumpy ride.  In either case, God raises up countries and leaders or brings them down.  Whatever his decision, He is God and the leaders are the Lord's Anointed.  I choose to trust in God and in his will, regardless of who is in office, because it is the Lord Jesus Christ who is in power.  Jus' Say'n.