"THE PEOPLE GROAN!"

Proverbs 29:1-2                       (ESV)
"1 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
2 When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, "THE PEOPLE GROAN!""




The HOLY BIBLE is not just a book with righteous suggestions on how good people might live their lives for things to go better in their lives.  As a matter of fact, JESUS said in John 16:33 that "....In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."  The HOLY BIBLE is akin to a roadmap given to us by our CREATOR to guide our steps through life's "valley of the shadow of death's" so we can endure until HE calls us Home!

There are times, just as in 1 Samuel 8:7, GOD shows creation "And the LORD said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected ME from being king over them."  Rejecting GOD is is a dangerous position to find oneself in.  We can do that which we think is best, but Proverbs 14:12 reminds us "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to DEATH!"  Unless we "walk by FAITH" we are doomed from the beginning, continuously trying to get somewhere, but we have no idea on where we are going?

What should we be looking for in a leader?  Does GOD give us what we should look for in a person who is Spiritually qualified to lead HIS people?  James 4:6 lets us know "GOD opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."  Maybe we should not try to find someone who is successful in the eyes of "this world", but look for someone who seeks GOD's guidance in their personal life, therefore they know how to seek HIS guidance for our country!  We can CHOOSE the kind of leader we THINK will be best, or we can let GOD guide us and trust HIM with the results.

America may have been founded on Judeo-Christian values, but we are rapidly abandoning those precepts and resorting to "a way that seems right to a man"!  Everybody likes it when things are going smoothly and prosperous.  But let things continue down this road we are traveling and you will see "THE PEOPLE GROAN"!  That is not a pessimistic guess, that is reading what the WORD of GOD says!!