Tuesday May 15, 2012

Write your local member a letter telling them that you and your church are praying for them. While your at it, invite him or her to church as well.

 

Read Deuteronomy 17:14-20;  Matt 23:1-12

 

There are millions of jokes about politicians and honesty aren’t there? And rightly so. We’ve all grown sick and tired of politicians who lie and make false promises just to be elected into power. We are all sick of politicians who give themselves pay rises and use their work credit cards for family holidays and to pay for drinks at a strip club. We are sick and tired of the lies.

 

How comforting to know that in God’s nation, even the King was expected to be righteous and holy. He was not above the law. He was to set the example and standard of living. He was not to consider himself better than his brothers. He was not to take many wives for himself. Solomon found out how deadly this practice was.  He was not to make alliances with foreign nations. He was not to indulge in the practices of the nations. In fact, the King was to have a copy of the Torah before him and he was to meditate upon it all the days of his life.

 

Positions of power in God’s economy are never to be marked by self interest and self promotion. Rather the higher positions have higher levels of responsibility and attract harsher punishment from the Lord for deliberate and wilful transgression.  The Lord Jesus made it clear that climbing the ladder of leadership and greatness was parallel to climbing the ladder of servanthood.

 

Imagine if the voting public actually cottoned onto this truth and starting voting for leaders who actually served the people. Imagine if the people banded together and immediately voted out those leaders who abused their positions of power. What a radical transformation our nation would see overnight. What an incredible difference we’d see in our politicians.

 

Prayer:

¥ Spend time praying for your members of parliament locally, in your state and for the federal parliamentarians. Pray too for the Christians in parliament.

¥ Pray that God would remove the anti-Christian elements in power in those countries where Christianity is considered a threat and a crime. Pray that our brothers and sisters in these lands would continue to challenge and rebuke such leaderships. Pray for courage, strength and wisdom.