God Will Choose Our Next President?
This is not just the election of a president. This is an election for a course of action, a destiny, a trajectory for the future of our country.
God Will Choose Our Next President.
Kevin Probst 9-28-2024
Let me begin this article with the stark and painful truth. It is no longer debatable. Americans realize it. Our enemies rejoice in it. Our friends tremble at the thought of it. America is in serious decline. We no longer govern efficiently nor protect the rights of our good citizens because we have corrupted our founding document, our Constitution. We have abandoned the principles set forth by our forefathers.
Our presidential election will soon be upon us and if a fair election is granted, the American people will choose the person that will govern our country for the next four years. We are not just electing a president, we are choosing a course of action, a set of policies, a political ideology, an agenda that will set our country on a certain trajectory. Americans are asking, which of these candidates, like Moses, will lead our people out of the darkened wilderness of despair and defeat.
Many Americans have unreasonable expectations. They look for a leader that is flawless, a leader impeccable in character. Moses was chosen by God to lead his people out of the land of Egypt. Moses was a flawed man. He struck the rock in a fit of anger. David was chosen to become perhaps the greatest warrior-king in Israel’s history. David was flawed, he was an adulterer and a murderer. The Apostle Paul was chosen to carry the gospel to the gentiles, Paul was flawed, he was a former persecutor of Christians. Sometimes God chooses flawed individuals to do the greatest things.
The next president of the United States will be a flawed individual. In all of history there has only been one man who lived a sinless life and he is not on the ticket for president of the United States.
We know that God “changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings…” (Daniel 2:21) Will our sovereign God not choose the trajectory of our nation?
Does God favor one candidate over another?
God will determine our future. “...the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, Gives it to whomever He will, And sets over it the lowest of men.” (Daniel 2:21) God will set the course for America. He will either set us on a course of grace or a course of judgment. We know that God is good, he is full of grace and he is a God of love and patience.
However, the grace and mercy of God cannot override the justice and righteousness of God. There comes a time when the cup of God’s wrath is finally full and overflowing. Hear God speak to the prophet Jeremiah: “Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.” (Jeremiah 25:15)
It seems there are but two paths available for America. One path will offer a reprieve, a path of grace that provides an opportunity to repent of our national sins and turn back to the God we’ve forgotten. The other path is a way that leads to destruction. It is a path that seems to be the right path to millions of Americans but “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)
I think God’s choice is to let us choose. We will choose one person or the other, one path or the other. Eventually, every individual and nation that continues in unrepentant sin will exhaust the patience of God. Consider God’s instructions to Ezekiel for the people of Israel: “‘As I live,’ says the Lord GOD, ‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why should you die, O house of Israel?” (Ezekiel 33:11)
If God’s cup of wrath is full and overflowing, if his patience has finally been exhausted, he will turn us over to our own devices. The heart of the natural man defaults toward sin and evil. God judges us by withdrawing from us. “And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting.” (Romans 1:28)
I am not sure who the next president will be but I am sure we will either be granted a time of undeserving grace or we will get a deserving dose of God’s wrath for our persistent disobedience toward a God whom we have willfully forgotten.
We must pray for America as Abraham prayed for Sodom and Gomorrah. He rested in his knowledge that God would do what was right: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” (Genesis 18:25)