Humble High

If there is one dish that Americans are loathe to eat, it is humble pie. Having been born a nation by casting off the British Crown, our DNA is encoded to resist humbling ourselves before any man. Dozens of Democratic congressional leaders are boycotting the Inauguration  of our new President because they feel he is not fit to be their president, despite the fact that he overwhelmingly won the Electoral Vote.

They feel their candidate and their ideology to be superior in every way, and the effort of the Russians to disrupt and disqualify our political process is the nail upon which they hang their angst. Rather than look to the flaws their candidate brought to the race, the missed opportunities to visit certain states that were lost, the fact that over a billion dollars was spent and the backing of media elites and the current Administration did not sway the Electorate enough mover come the reality of the state of affairs; they choose to look own their noses at the other flawed candidate, who happened to win.

How American, how human to stand so proudly defiant against an authority for whom they have no respect, but how ungodly. To begin with, "The authorities that exist have been established by God.  Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves" (Rom 13:1-2).

And the call God is not to refuse to recognize those Authorities but instead "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made...for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness" (1 Tim 2:1-2).

The answer to the disappointment and even disbelief of the disaffected Democrats is to resist, not the flawed President-Elect who was elected despite those flaws over their preferred flawed candidate, but to instead "...clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time" (1Pet 5-6).  Jus' Say'n.