Recently evangelist Franklin Graham called for Christians to
pray for President Trump — not that he governs well and according to
consistent Christian principles but that he not be removed from office through
impeachment for his various misdeeds.
If I have my facts correct, however, he was not so
charitable toward Bill Clinton 20 years ago when he was impeached for far, far
less than of what Trump is being accused.
And therein lies the hypocrisy for me. Graham thus is being
overtly partisan in his call to prayer — and for that reason God isn’t obliged to honor
it.
I sometimes wonder just how much such people believe in the
sovereignty of God. I’m not joking about that because believing that the fate
of the Republic hinges on the fortunes of whomever is in office comes across
as a hint of atheism.
“We want a country safe for Christians,” you might say. The
problem is that this world, let alone this country, isn’t safe for Christians,
so praying for our hegemony in fact might very well be a trick of the devil. If
that sounds crazy, consider that he has just one thing on his agenda: To keep
people from trusting God through Jesus Christ, and he’ll use the faith or even the
Scriptures, which he knows better than any of us, to do it.
I say this because, although at this juncture it’s pretty
unlikely, suppose Trump is actually removed from power? Will that mean that God
has failed? That’s what it sounds like, with James Dobson saying after Clinton
was acquitted that Americans didn’t understand the "nature of evil."
But only if a Democrat who was set up commits an immoral
act, correct?
That’s why I’m not at all impressed with Graham’s “prayer” — it
assumes that God will act a certain way but doesn’t allow Him to be God. Part
of the power of prayer of course is aligning the person/people praying with His
will, and I don’t think that’s the case here.
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