NO POWER BUT OF GOD!

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

NO POWER BUT OF GOD!

Rom 13:1

13 Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

           These words must have echoed in the mind and soul of America’s founding fathers. Yet the circumstances of their citizenship began to look more and more like slavery. Their property was not secure because England could billet soldiers in private homes without the owner’s permission. Taxation was such a burden that it frustrated ambition. It became more profitable to toss their tea into the sea than to pay the tax. There was no avenue for grievance.

           “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

           It has never been easy to balance “subjection” to governmental powers with “submission” to the will of God, but here we are again. Life – of the unborn, liberty – of our citizens, and the pursuit of happiness through religious liberty and moral purity are once again being eroded from beneath our feet. I wonder if we have the courage to break the shackles again.

           For now, at least, we are urged to pray “For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.” (1 Timothy 2:2)

Dear God of battles, tyranny once again awakens and we are caught between subjection and submission. Let us pray without ceasing but let us bear our arm if necessary. AMEN