Who Is To Blame?

     This is a new idea for us to consider....we all want our nation to be a Godly nation and to prosper, so we may want to consider that God's word says "If you will fear the Lord and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God." 1 Samuel 12:14
     This is written to God's people, not to the king and not even to unbelievers, if I remember correctly, that would be US! we are now God's people also (along with Israel), so this promise must include us.
     This promise doesn't read like we think! We think that our king/president should follow God by his own choosing, and then everything in our nation would be going well, right!? But this word says that if "YOU will fear the Lord and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel".......isn't that a surprise?
     With logical consideration, we can understand that by our own actions and rebellion we are causing our government to fail. We blame it on the politicians....but this verse puts it right on us!
     This is not a random verse I picked out, it's from my study this morning and if you go and read it in context you'll see that it says just what I'm telling you! and I even want to point to the closing verse, 1 Samuel 12:25, that says "But if you still do wickedly, both you and your king shall be swept away.".
     Does it feel like we are being swept away?  Maybe we better stop pointing fingers and start looking at the log in our own eye?
Maybe we need to start:
1. Fearing the Lord (Respect)
2. Serving the Lord
3. Listening to His voice
4. Stop rebelling
     Then our nation and the king/president will follow the Lord, our God!