How do We Pray for Obama?
Michael Bray
19 January, 2009
How do We Pray for Obama?
WND’s Farah raises the question in his article here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/?pageId=86469
He suggests we pray for Obama’s failure. I am so inclined as well. Indeed, after the example of the Psalmist (in #58), I am inclined to importune the Almighty regarding the Obama administrators that He “shatter their teeth” and “break out their fangs;” or, to cite a more pertinent Roe-oriented metaphor, that they “melt away” and be “like the miscarriages of a women which never see the sun” (vv. 6-8).
My zeal for such a prayer is stymied by the knowledge that our churches are so pathetic in their pulpit and public ministries that they are impotent to even declare a thorough doctrine of the sanctity of human life: viz. 1) that those who murder must be executed, and 2) those who defend the innocent with force do and must be vindicated. (These principles derive directly from the imago Dei doctrine of Gen. 9:6 upon which all human rights are soundly grounded.)
This is the basic message which the churches of God have failed to proclaim to the civil rulers. How can the churches of God indict these magistrates as traitors to their calling as responsible “ministers” of God ordained to enforce the law of justice and mercy (Rom 13), when they do not open their own mouths and advocate to those authorities God’s law? A recent example will suffice to illustrate the sad state of ecclesiastical affairs. When Rick Cizik, formerly the lead voice for the NAE in the affairs of government, is so ill-advised as to vote for Obama and to support sodomite civil unions, what can be expected of the civil authority? How can the civil government be expected to rise higher than the bar set by the voice of the churches of God?
I am inclined to view Obama as Judah was to view the Babylonians (Chaldeans) whom God had raised up as a whip to chastise His people. The prophet, Habakkuk, declares of this pagan regime which will conquer and rule God’s rebellious people, “their justice originates with themselves” (1:7) and yet, “You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge; and You, o Rock, have established them to correct” (1:12).
As we, the Churches of God, repent, we may pray to the God who has ordained this wicked man as a tool of chastisement and correction, that He “in wrath remember mercy” (3:2).
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