Govern the World by Pastor Bill

For the word of the cross is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to  us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the cleverness of the clever I will set aside."  Where is the wise man?  Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age?  Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  (1st  Corinthians 1:18-20)

Former President Bush said that He accepted Jesus Christ as his Savior and Jesus changed his life.  He also said that he prayed for guidance and this, predictably, brought criticism from the "keep God out of schools government and public life" crowd.

He was accused by, "self-styled" critics of not being an intellectual.  The Bible assures us that trusting in Jesus Christ is the most intelligent thing that anyone can do.  It is written, "...Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God..."  (v30)  What could be more wise on our part than to look to Jesus who is wisdom personified, for guidance and direction?

God considers the wisdom of the world, (that so called wisdom that has progressed beyond any need for belief in God) to be foolishness. Many world leaders promote education as the solution of the world problems but God's word tells us that education that denies God is a recipe for disaster.

Many of the world's most brutal and heartless tyrants were educated with godless teaching.  It was C. S. Lewis who said, "History demonstrates that education has only made man a more clever devil."

By the wisdom of this world is meant those teachings which are contrary to and which deny the revealed word of God.  Those teachers are 'great debaters' now, but at the judgment they will be speechless.  "...and he said to him, 'Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?' (that robe of righteousness that is acquired only by faith in Jesus Christ as Savior) And he was speechless." (Matthew 22:12)

The many discoveries that men have made and the knowledge that they have acquired are wrong, only when men take the credit for them and do not consider God in the use of them.  Nebuchadnezzar is a prime example: "The king reflected and said, 'Is this not Babylon the great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?'" (Daniel 4:30)  We know what happened to him.

We have many in Congress and in our courts who dispute this, but I like what George Washington said. "It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible."
   (by Pastor Bill Cummins, drbc@bresnan.net)