Good Leaders Take The Godly Path For Others To Follow
Word-of-the-Day: ‘For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.’ (Proverbs 11:14); ‘And David shepherded them with integrity of heart; with skillful hands he led them.’ (Psalm 78:72)
I wrote part of this back on 22 June 2023, as one of my early Word-of the-Day blogposts, entitled, ‘The Need for Strong Leadership’. I am returning to add to this as, first, I am amazed that I wasn’t so long-winded in my writing back then, and second, it basically covers most (but not all) of what I want to convey today regarding today’s Florida primary elections and the upcoming General Election nationwide on 3 November 2026.
This is not an attempt to tell anyone how to vote, except to say a Christian should vote based on Biblical principles and the precepts of the Gospel of Christ. Without Righteousness guiding those who we elect to be our representatives in office, at every level from Federal through local, we find a greater propensity of officials who decide how to handle issues in secular terms and not Godly, Biblically-based terms.
Thus, we find ourselves in a nation today that has been affected by a governing system that no longer holds Christian values as a guideline to govern and rule, but the values of secularism, a governance with subjective morals and questionable ethical standards, often for the benefits of their own agenda favoring themselves while ignoring the will of the people.
We find this in Old Testament Israel. After David and Solomon, Jeroboam split the Kingdom into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah, in part due to Solomon’s son Rehoboam rejecting the Righteous advice of the Elders in regard to the tribes of Israel (less Judah, Benjamin, and Simeon) and their request for relief of their unfair share of ‘national’ burdens (taxes and labor), over the secular advice of his ‘posse’, the young men who he hung out with in his youth. It was a combination of Jeroboam not following Righteousness, and the rogue tribes of Israel following secular desires and not God and His Word (1 Kings 12).
Later, throughout the remainder of the Old Testament history of Israel and Judah, we see both kingdoms suffering defeat after success. The defeats and hard times came after they turned away from God, while their successes were realized when they returned to God and properly worshipped Him. It was this way up to the Babylonian Exile and just after it, when the exiled repented and returned to God to allow themselves the opportunity to return to Israel and Jerusalem.
The key to success is being in tune with God and having Godly people in Righteousness providing Biblically sound advice. David and Solomon had, with admittedly some slip-ups, followed God’s Word and had such Godly advisors who helped them in keeping in step with God and His precepts. When Rehoboam didn’t follow the Godly advice of the Elders, but the secular advice of his friends, it caused the split of the kingdom and the larger kingdom, Israel, falling into idol worship and paganism, and oscillating leadership in Judah until it fell to the Babylonians.
Solomon likely was the author of Proverbs 11, while a Levite in David’s advisory circle, Asaph, wrote Psalm 78. Both discuss traits of leadership; the first half of Proverbs 11:14 provides that without skilled leadership, with God’s oversight and guiding hand upon the leaders, will collapse the nation. This is illustrated in the Bible throughout the Old Testament, and in the New Testament under the feckless leadership of Herod in Jesus’ time. Solomon then in the second half of the verse provides that success is given to those who listen to advice, especially if that advice is from God and Godly people.
We see this in all great leaders; US Generals George Patton and Dwight Eisenhower were known to pray earnestly and often for their troops to succeed, especially Eisenhower prior to D-Day (6 June 1944) and Patton who sought God’s will and urged his 3rd Army to pray to the Lord earnestly for fair weather in late 1944 to enter the German Saar region. Eisenhower also continually prayed as President, often proclaiming Days of Prayer for major US holidays of remembrance such as the 4th of July and Memorial Day. Other Presidents, such as Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and especially George Washington and our founding fathers, prayed earnestly to the Lord to provide His providence upon them and the people of the United States.
These men also led with great integrity and with great skills in leadership, gave people the belief that with God’s hand of guidance the United States would succeed in any endeavor undertaken, whether it was to be free from British tyranny or to repel the evils of Germany and Japan in World War II. This Faith allowed the US to achieve its ‘Manifest Destiny’ in becoming a ‘coast-to-coast’ nation to putting a man on the Moon. Great Godly men will lead their people into trusting in God and His Word, to accomplish His purpose.
Like Israel, though, the cycle of ‘Strong Godly Men create Good Times, Good Times create Weak Godless Men, Weak Godless Men create Bad Times, Bad Times Create Strong Godly Men’, is true in the US. Today we are , most likely and in my opinion, at the end of ‘Good Times’ and overall, our nation’s leadership is weak and Godless, though there are a few that do demonstrate Righteous thought in their decisions.
However, it is never too late to ‘break the cycle’ and restore the US through electing and promoting Strong Godly Men, who pray and seek God’s counsel in their decisions, back into our political leadership. These are the candidates I urge you to vote for; Godly, Righteous candidates who will base their decisions on Biblical principles and truths, not the whims of secularist whims and desires, in their representation of us.
