Political Stability is the Gift of God
Recent domestic political events give the sense that we now live more in a banana republic—no longer the stable political environment we have been used to over the last 230 years of our nation’s history. Even though we have had civil wars and world wars, but we generally have had political leadership with limited corruption and limited abusive behavior.
This favor we have enjoyed for so long was not the gift of the founding fathers, it was the providential gift of God and He can take it away.
Growing up in Phoenix Arizona I used to watch silly 1960s reruns as a child on our local channel 5 TV station. That was back when you only had three network stations (plus PBS) and one local station. KOOL channel 10 was one of the local stations that aired such mind-numbing fare as Gilligan’s Island and the Beverly Hillbillies. To an elementary schooler, it was the height of sophisticated entertainment.
During station identification (they used to do that) every hour or so, a male narrator would say these words as they ran visually across the screen.
“Kool TV Phoenix Arizona. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.”
The Psalm 33:12 address would follow. I can hear it in my mind today. Tears come to my eyes as I remember it. Was there really a day when a public TV station dared to say this repeatedly all day long? I believe Gene Autry owned that station back in the 1970s.
Before you get all dispensational on me and claim that verse regards only Israel, consider the entire context. The verse is true. It is the Bible after all.
The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;
He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect.
The counsel of the Lord stands forever,
The plans of His heart to all generations.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
The Lord looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men.
From the place of His dwelling He looks
On all the inhabitants of the earth;
He fashions their hearts individually;
He considers all their works.No king is saved by the multitude of an army;
A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.
A horse is a vain hope for safety;
Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope in His mercy,
To deliver their soul from death,
And to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waits for the Lord;
He is our help and our shield.For our heart shall rejoice in Him,
Because we have trusted in His holy name.Let Your mercy, O Lord, be upon us,
Just as we hope in You.
The Lord wants ALL nations to acknowledge Him. He is watching all the nations of the earth. The perceived strength of nations–intelligence, military power, political strength, size–is no defense against the judgment of God.
The Christian populations of the world (of the western world especially) need to repent of their worldliness, greed, immorality, drunkenness, and frivolity and wait on the Lord. We are on the doorstep of destruction. There is no path to the blessing of God that avoids repentance.
Our trust must be in Him. We must hope in Him. Can we see that yet?
Lord, make your name great in all the earth. Reveal yourself to a world that denies and despises you. Let it be the work of your Hands and not our own. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.
In God we trust.