[LS]

Thank God that He calls people that you (or I) often don't think fit the "moral mold" they should. Peter was a liar and an egotist. Paul authorized murder. Moses was a murderer. David an adulterer. And on and on. God deliberately chooses His vessels to confound the "rational" mind you or I might have.

Abraham Lincoln, a man of extremely limited national political experience, virtually no military experience (he joked about it),so unlikely to be his party's nominee that they didn't even have him in the program. Lincoln was not (in 1860) just a "lukewarm Christian," but he had as a younger man written a tract that raked Christianity over the coals.

Every time God raises someone up who doesn't conform to the "pious" people's expectation, He laughs. At some point, you'd think we'd learn.

[EternalVigilance]

Yeah. And sometimes He allows us to pick the tyrant we want.