I've Been Thinking About This…

On January 20, 2009 President Obama was inaugurated. Some Christians voted for him, and some didn’t, but even many of those who didn’t were still keen to recognize the Biblical injunction to ‘pray for our leaders’:

Nearly a quarter of a million people signed up on Max Lucado’s site to pray – others may not have signed up there, or even heard of him, but they too prayed.

And then what?

How easily we forget. If Biblical Christianity is indeed correct, then the battle of evil against good hasn’t stopped just because we had a nice bit of a prayer in January. Who’s praying now? And who’s getting ready to say, “Well, I don’t like what Obama says, or does, or stands for” … without having added their voice to what I suspect is the pitifully small number of people still praying? Do we only pray for our leaders when we feel like it? That’s not Biblical. Do we abandon them – stop praying for them – when they don’t follow a policy we believe in? That’s not Biblical either.

Let’s change that.

Politics is a hard enough arena to be in – let’s at least look after the people we voted about. One single vote in a presidential election seems a tiny thing when we compare it to the many millions needed to elect someone – but it all adds up, and every vote counts in one way or another. A prayer also seems to be an inconsequential thing – but each one matters.

We expect President Obama to make good decisions on our behalf about seats on the Supreme Court, foreign relations, the economic crisis – everything. It’s his job.

We should get back to our job – praying for our leaders.

What are your thoughts? Leave them in the comments…

   Send article as PDF to