Inauguration Day

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will. -Pr 21:1

As my first blog post, I thought I would dwell on the same topic that everyone else is dwelling on today: the inauguration of President Barack Hussein Obama. My understanding of blog posts is that they should be brief so I’ll seek to abide by that rule.

I did not vote for President Obama. However, if I had it to do all over again, I would have not voted for him twice. I do think his presidency has the potential to sink an already floundering US economy. Even worse, his presidency has the potential to open the door to much more pre-natal homicide [read: abortion] from coast to coast. Further, the policies regarding homosexuals in our military will certainly serve to damage this God-ordained means of protection for the righteous [Ro 13].

However, I am not despairing. At the end of the day, God, in his sovereignty, chose Barack Obama to be our president. God raised him up for this very time, and, at the proper time, he will remove him from office. The key for believers during times like these is to remember the purpose to which God has called us: “the stewardship from God that is by faith” [I Ti 1:4]. That is, the gospel. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ, alone, which has the power to transform dead souls into living ones. The wickedness of men will never be overcome but throught the “stewardship from God that is by faith.”

According to Paul, this gospel is

1. a stewardship; something to be tended to and cared for
2. from God
3. by faith

The believers at Ephesus where young Timothy sought to minister, were being distracted from the gospel by the teachings of false prophets. We too can become distracted from our main purpose by the externals of life; such as politics. When we abandon the gospel, we abandon the only hope for real CHANGE!

If this president seeks to carry out this ministry in a way that dishonors our great God, remember these words of David:

Why do the nations rage

and the peoples plot in vain? 

The kings of the earth set themselves,

and the rulers take counsel together,

against the Lord and against his

Anointed, saying,

“Let us burst their bonds apart

and cast away their cords from us.”

He who sits in the heavens laughs;

the Lord holds them in derision.

Then he will speak to them in his wrath,

and terrify them in his fury, saying,

“As for me, I have set my King on Zion, my holy hill.”

-Ps 2:1-6