Ever-Increasing Light

A Messianic Daily Devotional

“Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God” (Romans 13:1).

Shaking Fists

They’re shaking fists at you

when the status quo shifts.

Prancing with chipped shoulders

of entitlement, rising, gathering, hoarding

and calling it their own. Burning, breaking,

spewing evil in the name of self right, they

have forgotten about borrowed time or thin ice

or the gift of life itself.

Fearing and inciting fear, they blame You.

 

Yet You don’t flinch

at the grand and putrid march of mad rebellion.

The sight of it passed before Your eyes the

day you died as they pierced it into your

flesh and bruised Your heart to death. You

swallowed the poison and descended

into hell, laying a sword to the serpent’s neck,

You won the war. Rising with the rusty keys of

and death and hell to join Your Father’s side, angels

danced and sang as the victory of the ages ended.

 

You looked down from heaven to see they are still

shaking fists at you while Peter wept in a pool of

regret and Judas swung from a rope, alone

in the Field of Blood.

©Bonnie Saul Wilks

Jerusalem, Israel

May 13, 2014

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of American society, and it can be very effective. Over the weekend, hundreds of thousands clad in pink knitted-beanies did that–peacefully protested for feminine rights on the first day of office for President Donald J. Trump. Although the marching amazingly was pretty much without violence, the protesters’ rhetoric remained angry. The celebrity-studded sea of pink saw red and spoke red! Madonna confessed her desire to blow up the White House. Ashley Judd read a poem that was too vile to repeat.

My Facebook feed yesterday was filled with protest too. Most of my friends are believers through the blood of Messiah, Yeshua, and some are mocking or mad or just above it all. This is more painful. They are protesting Trump’s lack of suitability and character for such high office and position. And I am gearing up for a few months of shouting matches and a kind of on-going war, praying the protest will remain peaceful. Still it hurts.

Everyone shakes a fist at disappointment or injustice at some point. Now dissidents are shaking their fists at President Trump, but really they are protesting God. Why? No one comes to power except by the power of God alone. If we as believers in Yeshua don’t believe that, then something foundational is missing. We don’t have to like the ruling authorities; but we must recognize, they came to placement by the God of the universe.

I wish I could defend the 45th president of the USA’s character to the world. I cannot. But I can defend the biblical truth that; although I do not understand why right now, I know he came to power because God allowed it. Just like he allowed Obama before him and Bush before him and a myriad of others. His ways are past finding out. I must trust and wait. I must and will believe the best.

For more study…

Romans 1:18-22; Luke 24; Revelations 1:18; Philippians 2:10

Work it into daily life…

Pray for those in authority (I Tim 2:2). Pray more than you protest, but feel free to peacefully protest. When you are disappointed or frustrated with your government leaders, appeal to ruling authority respectfully. Go through the right channels of appealing to your state representatives. Pink, red, or purple — don’t shake your fists — bend your knee.

©Bonnie Saul Wilks