Have you been shocked by the bizarre and irrational behavior of our members of Congress as they hurriedly passed a so-called "stimulus" bill that they didn't have time to read even if they had wanted to? Their behavior is actually explained in the Bible:"He makes the nations great, then destroys them; He enlarges the nations, then leads them away.
"He deprives of intelligence the chiefs of the earth's people and makes them wander in a pathless waste.
"They grope in darkness with no light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man." (Job 12:23-25)
Deprived of intelligence; staggering like a drunken man: that sounds like Congress, doesn't it? The truth is, God is disciplining our nation through our leaders in all three branches of government in Washington. These officials are staggering around as a drunken man, groping in darkness, absolutely clueless. But it is not (in the case of most of them) that they have a low intelligence quotient. God has made them stupid, as it were, because they have, through their free volition, allowed themselves to be deceived by evil philosophies such as socialism and the notion of entitlement.
Now remember, our President and our Senators and Representatives in Congress were elected (and in many cases have continued to be reelected) by the people. The popular song going around the Internet, Born Again American, by Keith Carradine, contains the line, "The people’s will must have the upper hand." That's just the problem--the people's will has had the upper hand. The evil policies being implemented by our people in government express the evil influences which have taken hold of our naive and deceived electorate.
The people wanted change: Now we have change. When the populace of a nation is negative toward the principles related to freedom, free enterprise, marriage, family and the protection of national sovereignty, and when the believers in Jesus Christ within a nation are negative toward the doctrines contained in the Bible, God will see to it that the leaders of such a nation fail. We will no doubt be witnessing much more irrational and bizarre behavior in our leaders in the months ahead as our nation continues to self-destruct.
The good news for believers in Christ is that all of this been repeated in human history many times over, and in the midst of national crises, God is always faithful to provide for and care for those who embrace His Word. The difficulties and challenges will be great, and there will no doubt be suffering--but God will see us through as he did the people in the Bible who responded to God's Word in times of national disaster.
Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. http://www.lockman.org/
