A Good President?

There is a question that should be asked, given thorough consideration and answered. That is, what constitutes a good president?  To define "good" as one who upholds and follows the law of the land is not sufficient. For in our case, a president who upholds the abortion laws would then be a good president. I would define one who does so as the exact opposite.

It should argued that a good president is one who matches the criteria of biblical leadership, one who protects the innocent and punishes the guilty. With that kind of definition, we can see that our country's leadership is far off the mark. Our country has fabricated a form of leadership that both extends far beyond the biblical example and also violates that which Scripture commands. For most of us, we are powerless to do anything earthly about this, for the opinion of the masses do not agree with the biblical example. But we have the much more powerful tool of prayer. Since we see so little of the big picture, we don't really know for what we should pray. Therefore, let our prayer be, "Lord have mercy."

This leads me to the situation that is currently taking place in Crimea/Ukraine. I would argue, from my limited perspective and experience, that Putin is not doing the wrong thing. It seems to me that he is seeking to protect his people from the corruption of Western thought. The West prides itself on providing "freedom" for all men. But the freedom they provide is only freedom to sin. The Eastern mindset and the current strong influence of the Orthodox church in Russia puts them in a much better position. We should be much slower to criticize, considering the deceptive state of our media. We should be much quicker to believe the church than the news station.

In short, we need to keep in mind the nature of those who lead us, their possible motivations for what they say and what they do and their motivations for directing our thinking in any particular direction. So what motivates Obama and what motivates Putin?