My God and My Country

A Seventh Special Plea

by Doktor Riktor Von Zhades

Fellow citizens, brethren countrymen;

Each day, we’re reminded that we are to pray for all mankind. This should be particularly applied to our own nation. Pray for leaders that are lead by the Holy Spirit. Men and women that realize that for them to be the greatest among us they must take on the mantle of humble servant, and become the least among us.

Again this in no way implies that we should seek a theocracy. No Christian should even dream for it happen, for we are as mentioned sinful creatures by nature and habit. It was Lord Acton who once stated in his letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887:

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men."

As such, we should never seek such power, but allow men, who are of good moral character, and sound mind to be selected to not so much to lead but to follow the will of the citizens of our nation. Likewise should we never take joy in those that would perish, for God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked but desires that all come to love and worship Him. (Read Ezekiel 18:23, 32; Joel 2:12-13; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9)

Hear you then the words of God to Jonah in Chapter 4 verse 11, who apparently was displeased that our Creator spared the city of Nineveh. It seems that he felt, that the wickedness of it’s inhabitants should be punished even though they had repented. (See previous chapter).

“And should not I spare Nineveh that great city, wherein are sixscore thousand persons, that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand, and also much cattle?”

My brethren, let us continue to pray for the repentance of our nation that it should return to our Creator.