I AM the LORD YOUR GOD (Part 11)

God is God, and those that come to lead us are those because God allows it. According to Psalm 72:1-20, God gives leaders their righteousness; it doesn’t come to them by anything they do. God blesses them and at the same time He will protect those who are poor and ill and He promises to break the oppressor. God is in control of all life. What I forget is that while I wish He could do things right now, and am impatient for what I perceive as justice to take place, He knows the best timing. How do I know that if He was to take action when I think He needs to that others may not turn into oppressors too? Humanity doesn’t change that much. That being the case, while delays in removing oppressors seems unjust, at the same time, oppressors are seen for what they are, and God’s mercy and kindness is seen for what it is. What is God’s purpose, to remove the oppressor? No, it is to show us a different way of seeing our situation and in fact a new way to look at the old way that God presented to His people in the Old Testament. He after all did look after the Jews. All He asked was that they looked to Him. And He kept them protected as long as they believed in Him, as long as the whole nation recognized and acted upon the notion He was the One and Only, He kept warring nations away from them. But the minute the nation as a whole sanctioned hypocrisy and idols then God’s justice came down upon them. It is as if the warning of Deuteronomy 13:12-18 to accept only Him as God and to cleave to Him truly bore fruit. He followed through on His warnings.