Advice for President Trump

I watched President Trump's inauguration last Friday, I was filled with excitement and the tone of his acceptance speech, though challenging what we've come to know as the "norm", was not significantly different from the campaign speeches he's been giving for the past year!  He's a man of commitment to his base.  He know's well the extensive base that brought him to Washington and loyalty to this base is very important.  There's an old saying that goes like this; "You dance with the one that brought you to the party."  President Obama did it, President Bush did it, and President Clinton did it.  Why should we expect President Trump to be different?  

I also view his acceptance speech as a "goal setting" speech.  Do I expect him to achieve everything he laid out in his speech?  No, but l expect him to do his best to achieve as many of these goals as possible in the next 4 years.  Who wants a leader that sets a few easily achievable goals?  Not me!

The one piece of advice I leave for President Trump is from 2 Timothy 2:25-26 NIV: "Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.”

This is my prayer!  Dear Lord, I pray that you give President Trump, the wisdom, strength, and patience to lead our great nation back to You!  I ask that You give President Trump the gentleness to instruct and lead our opponents to God's repentance, leading them to knowledge of the truth and escape from the devil who has them captive to do his will.  These things I pray in Jesus' name.  

Amen.

Faith, Hope, and Love. The greatest of these is Love.

1 Corinthians 13New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poorand give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.