Honor

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed. Romans 13:7

It troubled me to read the report of a child throwing a piece of 2x4 at the Presidents limousine. How have we taught so much disrespect to our children? I remember when I was a child, my father voted for Nixon, but we would have all been awed to see President Kennedy drive by in a motorcade. That is as it should have been. What we are seeing today is wrong. Our country's health is bad. God ordains civil authority. I struggled with Presidents that I didn't vote for but I began to realize I needed to respect the office of President. I was talking with some one the other day that was a Democrat and a Christian. His thought was our Presidents are God's permissive will. I think we don't want to acknowledge that God would put someone in office of President that we don't like. But we see it in Bible History where God gave some Kings to bring his people back into dependence on him. I believe what we are seeing is more than just God's permissive will. God chose these Presidents for a reason and the biggest reason of all is to bring us back to a dependence on God almighty. A President is not going to fix our nation. It takes God in the hearts of men. We have corruption even on a local, state level. What are we teaching our children? Where is our country headed if we don't fix this? Let us give honor to whom honor is due. You may not like this President or even the last President but let us honor the office of the President of the United States. Let us be citizens first and Republican or Democrat second. Let us be citizens first and Liberal or Conservative second. If we are Christian, let us be Christian before any thing else and slander no man, honor to whom honor is due.  God bless, LVZ.