Socialist Leanings Continue

President Obama recently appointed the Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, as the Director of Health and Human Services.  Kathleen is a woman whose leanings toward Socialism are as blatant as those of the President.  She attempted to force legislation which would have created mandatory public funded health care in Kansas.  Fortunately the State Legislature was a little more sensible. So, instead of diversity in the President's cabinet we are getting more of the same. And it bothers me.  It bothers me because the guidebook of my life, the Bible, advises care in the selection of friends and counselors.  All of us tend to become like those with whom we associate. In my opinion the United States has been placed on a slippery slope sliding toward disaster.  The United States, instead of being a power to be reckoned with, is becoming a power to be ignored.  Like a school bully we can threaten a severe beating based on past victories but we really don't have the power (or is it "the will") to follow through.  We are no longer a leader we have become a follower - a follower of failed Soviet bloc and European attempts to govern with mandatory sharing of reduced resources.  

Such thoughts were whirring through my mind today when I began reading the Bible.  I have been wondering if there is any answer.  I asked at one point in my musings "is God delivering us into captivity or is Satan destroying us?"  If I could make a choice between the two I would choose the first.  However, when I began reading today I read something which gave me hope and I just had to share it.

"Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge.  I said to the Lord, 'You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.'" And God said to me, "focus on who I am."  It is easy for me to forget the greatness and almighty, everlasting power of God when I see the direction we are being forced to take because of the decisions of politicians who have little love for this country.  "Focus on who God is."  When I do focus on Him the enormity of the problems desolve.  

"Surely I have a delightful inheritance."  Focus on a future the present cannot destroy.  Do what you can to right the wrongs and direct others to the right path - but remember you have to leave this place to reach the next.  So don't lose sleep over unrighteous people who make unrighteous decisions which lead people down an unrighteous road.  You should expect nothing else from them.  "Surely I have a delightful inheritance."

"I will praise the Lord who counsels me..."  I don't take my orders from politicians.  They may succeed in pushing the country in the wrong direction but they will not push me in that direction as long as I allow the Lord to counsel me.  Focus on the directions of the Lord.  "I have set the Lord always before me.  Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.  Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure..."  Wow!  Thank you Father! Just what I need when I need it - that's what He continues to supply.  Live what you know is right.  Depend on the direction the Lord provides.  Trust in the care of the Father.  Now ask yourself - what do I have to fear?