Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I Corinthians 13
One of my favorite commercials is the one for Capital one where the celebrity spokesperson tries to convince you of the superiority of their card. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkj3pcL95Ko I'm going to take a slightly different twist on this slogan and ask you 'what's in the foundation of your life you're standing on?'
This question comes at a time when the world is crying for leadership that truly believe that God sent his son into our world to transform souls, not just be a cultural Christian pulled in every direction the wind decides to blow them.
The sad reality of today's political climate is the lack of leaders willing to search after God's own heart.
They are searching for it in all the wrong places.
Through their conquests over woman
Through their conquests up the corporate ladder
Through their multiple job titles
Through their upward and lateral moves
Our leaders are forgetting that at the very heart of what makes America great is having their priorities straight, value their family, and their relationship with God. In the path of these current leaders, on both sides of the aisle, are people damaged by the wake of their strivings.
People told not to say anything about what they did to them
People to ashamed to move on because of what happened to them
People who lost the ability to strive and be successful, and
People who fell off the corporate latter because the one who rose higher
stepped on their hand until they lost their grip
As they fell, these leaders let out a laughter as they kept climbing
Instead of searching after God's own heart, We absorb the little sound bytes of life and believe the lies that cloud our thinking.
My value is measured by my self-worth
my financial statements
My value is greater than those who make less than me
My value is measured by my job titles and corresponding wage and bonuses received
My value is measured by my new and exotic cars
My value is measured by my conquests (you fill in the blank)
So often, it seems, we allow the world to mold us into what they think we should be, Men are often told that 'they ought to sow their wild oats when they are younger and only then they can get down to business and make a million dollars, marry a trophy wife, have trophy kids and live in a McCastle of a trophy house with a trophy size great room to entertain other people striving for trophies, not realizing that what God truly wants from us is to search after His own heart and be what you were intended to be in the eyes of our living God.
Our country is in need of a revival- a revival of the heart, mind, and soul of men and woman. What the younger Donald Trump's, Billy Bush and Bill Clinton needed were for godly men to take them under their wings and help them to believe the things in the bible and reach their full capacity of what God has for them.
But the amazing thing about God's redemptive power is that it is never too late for anyone to get their priorities straight---never too late for Donald Trump, never too late for Billy Bush and never too late for Bill Clinton, or Hillary Clinton or every other political leader for that matter.
All we have to do to start such a revival for hearts of men and woman is to pray for them.
Pray for them
model what it means to be a godly man or woman
Share your life's story with them about God's redemption in your life
so they can see when hard times come, God helped you recover
What's in your foundation? Is it solid ground that only God can create, or is it the sinking sand of cultural change? Our world needs men and woman to listen to God's voice and resist the messages this world sends to us.
God truly does have a better plan for our lives than the one the world convinces us we must have.
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