Appreciate your comments. We do walk an interesting matrix, as Christians and citizens. I think we need to pursue both priorities.

On the one hand, He says, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves (and other actions)… I will heal their land…" Interesting that His offer is to heal the land regardless of what the other people are doing, those NOT called by his name. They get the benefit, deserved or not, as a side effect of His people responding to Him as they should. Or, vice versa, geting the side effect of the land NOT being healed, if we do not respond to him, whether they know that's the real operational dynamic or not.

On the other hand, the Constitutional Republic was brilliantly formed, clearly under His guidance, and has produced blessing for the world beyond any in this world's history. It is a great gift, and one worth defending against all attack, for the benefit of our descendants and those of all nations who thereby benefit from more freedom, etc, as they have in the past.

So as His people we respond to Him, whether He chooses to save the nation from tyranny or not… and as citizens, we do whatever we can to preserve the blessings of His prior gifts, always mindful that our allegiance to the Giver supercedes our allegiance to His gifts!

This dual responsibility bears some public discussion, I think, and needs to be explored further by Christian patriots. I think I'll go paste this into my own blog, for what good it might do … !

Again, thanks.

Therefore, the real solution lies deeper than politics and lies in the realm of religion. Indeed, it was the Christianity of John Calvin upon which our experiment in human governance was founded. And myriad founders, politicians and philosophers well understood that American Constitutional government required a foundation of Christian morality of the Reformed persuasion in order to operate effectively. And over the centuries it has been that particular moral persuasion that has been eroded.

The deeper problem is not the morality of the politicians, as disgusting as that is. Rather, the deeper problem is the morality of the people whom said politicians accurately represent. Thus, the previous commenter is correct to a point. To illustrate that point we need only ask which "we the people" would like to take charge of the oil spill?

It is not that "we the people" are to be in charge, but that "we the people" are responsible to "you know Who," and who is actually in charge, and is working to correct a long history of usurpation of authority.