Posted on 02/08/2020 5:22:03 AM PST by Pilgrim's Progress
“By me kings reign, and princes decree justice” (Proverbs 8:15 KJV).
God establishes kings, and not only according to their wisdom and their following God, but also, He will give the people what the people want. What people want is generally what they get, and usually to their detriment. How half of the country can actually vote for a candidate that has promised to keep the wholesale murder of unborn babies legal, and now to include even those that are out of the womb but still technically unborn just because the umbilical cord has not yet been born. These people advocate for the killing of babies fully come to term. They are reviving the ancient false worship of Moloch where parents threw their babies into the red hot arms of a statue.
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah 17:9-10 KJV).
God gives to man what he wants, and when the nation of Israel did not want God to reign over them; they wanted a king like the other nations, God said okay, I’ll give you one. We see this request in 1 Samuel 8:1-8.
“And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba. And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted judgment. Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. And Samuel prayed unto the LORD. And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them. According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee” (1 Samuel 8:1-8 KJV).
Our presidential elections are not always for the Christian’s good. God gives a nation the kind of rulers they want. Half of our country wants to continue murdering babies, right up until the moment the mother begins labor, and they want the Sodomite agenda to have equal rights and minority status. They want to open our borders to who knows what, and they wish to embrace a globalist mentality where America no longer exists as a sovereign nation. They have moved so far left of center that it has become frightening. To them, our Constitution is nothing more than an outdated old handbill. Half of our country no longer wants godly principles and would render Christianity a hate crime if they could. They wanted a man like Barack Obama, and they got Barack Obama. This country wanted a Hillary Clinton, and only by God’s grace did we get a Donald Trump. We don’t have statesmen anymore, we have politicians.
Most Americans don’t want to stand for what’s right; they just want to live like they want to live, and they don’t want to be bothered with freedom and liberty which they consider vestiges of a racist past. They even prefer socialism even though the rest of world, under communism, is scraping for a living, digging through garbage for food—and they will come and take ours if we let them.
So, God gave Israel a king in place of Himself, and guess what they got. They got old mealy-mouthed, lying, reprobate Saul, who wouldn’t do the will of God and brought judgment upon Israel, and their enemies grew and gained strength. If it wasn’t for the fact that God intervened and anointed David, they would have lost the whole kingdom.
“By me kings reign,” and by wisdom they reign properly. And when they do reign properly, the people rejoice.
Daily Bible study is necessary if we are going to begin our day with the right attitude and the right spiritual diet. Proverbs has 31 chapters, and most months have 31 days, so let’s read a chapter of Proverbs a day and see what God might have for us. As the Lord leads, share with us what God has shown you in a special way and by His grace let us build up a devotional repository. Let’s keep our knives and forks handy for some daily bread! Ideally, a chapter or two of Proverbs will fit in nicely with a good plan of reading our Bibles through each year.
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