A few years ago a friend and I had been whitetail hunting all week and we both had seen a dozen or so deer each day. And then in spite of the fact that we were still using the exact same techniques and hunting the very same area, the deer mysteriously seemed to vanish and we didn’t see a single deer between the two of us. We were discussing what might be going wrong when my friend told me in all sincerity that he thought it was because the time had changed and it was “messing the deer up”; (we had set our watches back an hour due to the daylight savings time change).
Huh?
I recently launched my new Words for the Day website and in anticipation of encountering a few glitches I decided to get up at my normal time of three or four o’clock in the morning on Saturday and Sunday, (in addition to my Monday through Friday routine), so I could write a couple of extra WFTD’s. I did this in order to get a couple of entries ahead of the game in case something went wrong with the new website. I also decided to send them out at night instead of in the mornings as I usually do. I figured that would give our team ample time to see if it was being delivered properly; and if not, I hoped it might allow the necessary time to fix the problem by morning, or send it out on the old website with no interruptions to my highly esteemed readers.
Sure enough a day or so later a reader wrote to complain that he liked Words for the Day far better when I wrote them in the mornings as opposed to writing them at night.
Huh?
In quiet time reflection it often seems incredulous that people could say or do some of the things that we say and do. Take ultra liberal Democratic New York Congressman Anthony Weiner for example. It was bad enough to conduct ongoing relationships with six different women half his age, (none of whom was his wife), using social media including tweeting sexually explicit photos of himself in his boxers, chatting on Facebook, and then getting on the phone and talking nasty to them and engaging in phone sex, but when the racy Twitter photos ended up going all over the world on the Internet, did he admit his wrongdoing?
No, he invited every major network news anchor from every major television news channel into his congressional office and as the cameras rolled, he lied to every one of them and said it didn’t happen.
Huh?
Now that he has admitted it, many are calling for Weiner to resign and he has vowed not to do so. I wouldn’t bet against him getting through it unscathed. Fellow NY Democrat Charlie Rangel didn’t resign and is still hanging in there and that has to give him hope.
I would guess that perhaps the brightest hope for him is the example set by none other than old “Slick Willy” – Bill Clinton. He who held the highest office in the land was impeached for lying (in court no less), about having sex with Monica Lewinsky in the Whitehouse. He not only survived his ordeal but thrived, and amazingly served out the rest of his full term, and left the Whitehouse with a 67% approval rating.
Huh?
Common sense would imply that Weiner should resign. No I’m not trying to be judgmental or pious. God deals with sin and not me. I think he should resign because he is too stupid to serve as one of the leaders of our country. I know my detractors will pounce on this as my being too much of a cad and not loving enough, but I suppose I’m just sick of the so called leaders of this once great nation doing things like this and then lying with impunity.
The root of the problem is the character or lack thereof of the people we are putting in office. The Bible is not silent on this and dates all of the way back to Moses. He was overwhelmed from deciding all of the issues of an entire nation on a day to day basis, so it was decided to sub it out to others.
Their qualifications: Ex 18:20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens…
The Bible does not instruct us to choose our leaders based on political affiliation, race, color, or popularity; however it does clearly say that we should choose God fearing leaders. With all of the hoopla about separation of church and state that requirement is all but lost and forgotten, but nonetheless it does not make it any less valid today. (Remember that the next time that you vote).
In spite of it all, the Bible does tell us to pray for our leaders, even when they may not share the same faith as us, but because they are in authority. Oddly our reward as pointed out in the verse below is to pray for them in order that we may lead a quiet peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Okay here we go: Lord we pray for Mr. Weiner and his family. I ask that you would speak to his heart and lead him in the direction in which you would have him go for now and forever. Most of all I pray that Jesus Christ will become the focal point of his life. Amen
I Tim 2:1
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
P.S. In deference to my readers in the Philippines, Australia, and India I send this out this evening in order that it might arrive in your time zone in the morning so that it might be of a quality that is acceptable to you…