A Man Who Fears God!

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Look and be amazed at what’s happening
among the nations!
Even if you were told,
you would never believe
what’s taking place now.

I am sending the Babylonians. They are fierce and cruel—
marching across the land,
conquering cities and towns.

How fearsome and frightening. Their only laws and rules
are the ones they make up.

Their cavalry troops are faster than leopards,
more ferocious than wolves
hunting at sunset,
and swifter than hungry eagles
suddenly swooping down.

Habakkuk 1:5-8

The latest headline about the military prowess of the United States describes a weapon that can strike anywhere on earth in about an hour. The concept is really quite mind boggling. The country that has enough of these weapons will control the entire earth and every country on it! If the leaders or leader of that country are righteous they can control evil and stop the spread of terror. If the hands that can launch such a weapon are stained with unrighteous and evil intent there is no limit to the destruction of goodness on the earth.

As a country like the U.S. shapes the future of its government by electing new leaders for the next few years there is only one thing to consider. Are you voting for a man or woman who fears God and avoids all forms of wickedness and evil? Intelligence is irrelevant. Better to have a leader with a minimum I.Q. who fears God than to have the smartest man on earth who does not!

God can give wisdom to an ignorant man as well as a genius. All the collective brilliance of the most educated minds on earth does not come close to the simplest thought of God.

How does this impact me? I am not the ruler of a country, but I am the leader of my own heart. Today I can move ahead with my own human wisdom or I can stop and ask God what to do and how to lead my life!

Success in this life is simple. Fear God and keep His commandments. As the author of Ecclesiastes said, that is the whole duty of man!