Romans 13

As I think on this chapter of Romans, it starts with "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." And then dropping down to verse 4, "For he is a minister of God to thee for good...". I have been troubled by the disrespect given to our Police Officers and also to our President.  now I do not agree with the majority of things this President has done. I feel like he has done major damage to our country. But he was duly elected twice to this office. I feel he is partially responsible for the negative attitude towards our law enforcement. When he told the protesters to keep on doing what they were doing in Ferguson. It got out of hand and now we see the same thing in Baltimore. But he is our President, may we learn from this to never elect another President based on his race or the color of his skin. My we look to the character and the person he is inside. When Obama was elected, you could not voice opposition without being called racist or a bigot. He was black and that is the biggest reason why he was elected. Obama has done more to divide this country along racial lines that perhaps any President in recent times. Let us learn from this. As for the law enforcement, and the mistrust between the black communities and our law enforcement officers. I don't claim that there are no bad cops. Are there not bad doctors, lawyers, teachers, ministers and the list goes on. When a minister goes bad, we don't disrespect all ministers. When a teacher has inappropriate contact with one of their students, we don't label all teachers as bad. Yet something as critical as law enforcement, we have. There is rioting and looting, burning stores and this over an individual that is believed to have been injured in Police custody. What if a doctor makes a mistake, and it does happen. We may sue the doctor and the hospital to get justice, but we don't tear up our city and destroy businesses. We may see to it that a teacher is prosecuted and brought to justice, but we don't destroy the neighborhood in the process. A minister may be brought to justice and perhaps face jail time as Jim Baker did years ago. Or Jimmy Swaggart and his fall, but we don't destroy Billy Graham in the process. This is wrong what is happening in Ferguson and Baltimore, Perhaps there is some things wrong in these communities, but lets not destroy the city. That does nothing but hinder real justice. We need to be subject unto our higher powers, they are ordained by God. I hope black ministers are careful of the words they say from their pulpits and don't fan these flames. We need to respect the office of our President and our Police Officers, they are God's ministers. There are proper ways to handle injustice, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, did lead protests to gain justice, but they did not destroy the communities in the process. Much good for this country was accomplished by Dr King. He did it the right way. there are more things that need to be fixed in this country, but lest do it the right way and much will be accomplished.  Lets not destroy our cities, and our Police Departments in the process. Let us not destroy jobs by burning businesses in the process. Lets not destroy a police officer's life over doing his job and lift up a thug to Sainthood. This is not right. We hinder justice in the efforts to figure out what happened to the young man in Baltimore. Over and over again I see bad things happening because someone resisted, or ran, or fought with the Police. In all these instances, would it not have turned out differently if the person had not fought, ran, resisted. Yes bad things happened, but could it have been avoided if someone had just submitted to the police?  If it is a wrongful arrest, could it not be dealt with later, through the courts?  Most of these were not wrongful arrests, and perhaps that is why they resisted in the first place. It don't make it right, but they have ownership in what happens when they resist and the Police have to use forceful means to uphold the law. There is a general disrespect towards authority in this country, that needs to be fixed. God bless, LVZ.