Pawns Under the Mighty Hand of a Righteous God

House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will be in the spotlight this week.  They will continue their piddly little antics with the budget negotiations so that, if possible, some functions of the government will not shut down by this Friday.  Well, as inept as some of the government functions are, it would be VERY OK with me if some of them did shut down.  They need to let my wife be in charge of the purse strings.  Her strategy is simple, "We can't afford to do that."  Hey!  What's wrong with that?  Sounds like a great plan to me.  Do I have the digital camera that I want so I can create another blog about my backyard?  Not yet.  Do we have cable or satellite dish any more?  Nope.  Couldn't afford it right now.  And, frankly, except for the Florida Gators football and the Atlanta Braves baseball, it hasn't made a whole lot of difference in our lives.  Our house payment is being made.  The lights are still on.  There's food on our table.  Sure, I had to take ramen noodles for lunch last week, and I kinda grew to like them.  Is my household much different than yours?  Not really.  It's all a matter of, "We can't do that" when it comes to spending money.  Why can't our CURRENTLY elected officials figure that out.  My suggestion is that if the CURRENTLY elected officials can't figure it out, then they are the ones who should be FIGURED out in the next elections.  Why keep throwing money away on useless politicians?

So, what's the answer? Ex 2:23--And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.  No, I am not advocating that someone assassinate the president or any of our leaders.  What I am advocating is that those of us in bondage need to start crying out to God.  The children of Israel new that God had said that they would be in bondage for four hundred years before they would be released.  They kept track and it was coming up on the four hundredth anniversary.  They began to pray and cry out because of the cruel bondage that they were in.

We are coming up on the Easter season where we celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  He was cruelly crucified and died as a ransom for our sins.  Three days later, he was resurrected and began a new reign as King of kings and Lord of lords.  Notice the big "K" and the little "k".  That means the HE rules over everyone else that thinks they are the little "k" on this earth.  And that includes every member of our Congress.  Folks, let's get this idea that running our government is out of our hands and we can't change things.  When our hands are folded in prayer and our knees are bowed before the KING of kings and LORD of lords, we, in essence begin to take on the role of leaders of our country.  If God's people will only see the necessity of powerful, corporate prayer, the congressmen that are elected to serve us would indeed begin to serve us.

Pharaoh did not want to let God's people go.  He commanded his armies to tighten down on the rebellious Hebrews.  These children of the covenant went over his head and began to cry out to a righteous God that had cut a covenant with their Patriarch Abraham.  God is a righteous covenant keeping God.  He said that He would keep His covenant down through a thousand generations. (Deut. 7:9, 1 Chron 16:15, Psa 105:8)  So what are we waiting for?  Take control of your government by taking control of your knees.  Bow before Him and plead the blood of His covenant, the blood that Jesus poured out on Calvary's cross.  Repent of every sin He convicts you of.  Turn to Him and He will turn back the tide of oppression.  Pharaoh was only a pawn in God's hands and, through prayer, our leaders will only be pawns for Him, also.