HOPE OR DESPAIR

So if I may, and without getting too political, I’d like to say a word about Donald Trump. 

Because if you’re one of those people, and there are some, who is putting their hope in him, you need to stop. Because he’s only a man.

And if you are one of those people, and there are some, who despair that he’s the President of the United States, you need to stop. Because he’s only a man.

It is God who is in control – not Donald Trump. 

And God will use him, as he does all world leaders, as a means of grace, or a means of judgment, as he, and he alone, sees fit.

Hope then in Almighty God – and not in a mere man.

‘The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will.’ [Proverbs 21:1]

‘Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God’ [Psalm 20:7]


Related posts:

To read “Hope comes from believing the promises of God”, click here

To read ‘Weeping with those who weep’, click here

To read ‘Real Power’, click here

To read ‘Jesus wept’, click here

To read ‘A good heart these days is hard to find’, click here

To read ‘What becomes of the broken hearted? Sorrowful yet always rejoicing on Palm Sunday’, click here

To read ‘Why do bad things happen to good people? Sorrowful yet always rejoicing on Good Friday’, click here

To read ‘Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things? Rejoicing, though temporarily sorrowful, on Easter Day’, click here.

To read ‘Ascension Day’, click here.

To read ‘Speaking in Tongues’, click here.

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Author: Peteaird

Nothing particularly interesting to say about myself other than after 27 years working as a GP, I was delighted, at the start of December 2023, to start work as the South West Regional Representative of the Slavic Gospel Association (SGA). You can read about what they do at sga.org.uk. I am also an avid Somerset County Cricket Club supporter and a poor example of a Christian who likes to put finger to keyboard from time to time and who is foolish enough to think that someone out there might be interested enough to read what I've written. Some of these blogs have grown over time and some portions of earlier blogs reappear in slightly different forms in later blogs. I apologise for the repetition. If you are involved in a church in the southwest of England and would like to hear more of SGA’s work, do get in touch. I’d love to come and talk a little, or even a lot, about what they get up to!.

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