A Call for Prayer for this Nation-Day Nineteen
I have a confession to make. I got in mentally tired from a job that I am grateful to have, but which is greatly contributing to the accelerated dying off of my remaining brain cells, not from the actual work of the job, but the bureaucracy that is part of the deal. I made the unpardonable mistake of remaining on the telephone past my lunch time, helping a caller. I was nailed for not being "compliant" with the lunch schedule. I refrained from asking for a dose of Preparation H to see how "compliant" I could become! I meekly gave up seven minutes of my lunch time so that I did not end up on the "compliancy chart." This after giving up six minutes of a fifteen minute break earlier in the day, because I was again helping a caller. In a way, "compliancy-gate" could be the perfect contribution to my subject of choice for today.
Today I am looking at "wisdom." About two years ago or so, I began praying for wisdom for myself, family and friends. I guess it is because I looked around and I realized that many of us do have a passing acquaintanceship with the word, but we are not regular practitioners. On and off I pray for wisdom for those who seek to, or are already leading us in the political arena. I am hoping that God answers my prayers, but judging by the actions of so many of those politicians, either God is dispensing "wisdom," and they are flushing it down the drain, or God is still weighing whether it is wise to waste wisdom on those who believe that they are mightier than He is.
If I sound like a broken record on the subjects of the practioners of the "art of the possible," AKA politicians, good. I mean to. When one elevates oneself to a higher plane than others, with the kind of self-adulation that some politicians have turned into an art form, then one should expect "elevated" scrutinity. When God allows you to be in a position to lead what I term His model country, you should take that responsibility seriously, and be a servant to the people, not lord it over them. This republic has been there, done that, and taken care of out of control kingly ambition, during that period called the Revolutionary Wars. We will not be ruled in this present day and times, by "kings" in deeds if not by title!
In five more days, we as a nation, had better "overdose" on wisdom and make the right choice in our selection of those who will be leading us in these tumultous times. If we don't, generations of the young, will be paying for our mistakes, almost until they are ready to cast off the bonds of this earth. If we elect politicians for whom wisdom, honor, justice and the fear of God, are "old-fashioned notions," there will be no more "United" States of America, one nation under God.
James 1:5
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Proverbs 30:24-28
24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;
26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;
27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
28 The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings' palaces.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Proverbs 28:5
5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things.
Psalm 19:7
7 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Ecclesiastes 7:12
12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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