Wrong Perfect President

Our country will not be fixed by electing the ideal candidate to the presidency, even if it were Jesus Christ himself. I say this for three reasons.

1.. He already is in charge. Psalm 115:3, “Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.” He is pleased to let people make choices. And we choose bad choices an awful lot.

2.. Remember when he was training those twelve disciple guys back in the day? That didn’t end very smoothly. Judas saw The Perfect Leader of the Universe every day for three years. Then he sent him to his grave for some cash.

3.. Remember how things went down back in the Old Testament? They had many direct pipelines to the very throne room of God through Moses, the prophets, etc. Time and again for centuries they thought his ways were stupid. He’d warn them. They’d do it anyways. He gave a second chance, and another second chance. And another one and a bunch more. They’d do it anyways, and then do it again. And again. And again.

Good leadership is critical. Don’t get me wrong. Proverbs 29 says, “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.” “By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.”

We have lots of problems, but our biggest one is not our leaders. It’s our hearts. We prefer deceit. We do not find sin repulsive. We devour it. We enshrine it. We idolize it. We bow down and worship it.

When 300 million people delight in lust, selfishness, impatience, materialism, gluttony, etc., we won’t follow a good leader.

Psalm 144:15, “Happy is that people, whose God is the Lord” and before the Christians start cheering I hasten to add that it’s no good if we ‘honor him with our lips but our hearts are far from him,’ Matt 15:8.

When our hearts are close to him, our actions will show that we cherish self control, holiness, truthfulness, doing honest work, controlling our tongues, etc. When a population of 300 million, or even half of it, honors that God and those virtues, that would help a country a lot.

And to all my friends who aren’t Christians, that is sort of the whole message of Jesus. We can’t fix ourselves. We can do a lot of good things, but our hearts are crooked and we can’t fix them without help from outside ourselves.