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Many of us are now celebrating Donald Trump’s Inauguration to the Presidency of the United States.  In my opinion, a miracle brought this about.  Consider:

-He had no political experience, and he faced an opponent with decades of government involvement.

-He was outspent probably 2 to 1.

-He constantly made the media his enemies by exposing their lies.

-All major polls showed him defeated going into Election Day.

-He even lost the popular vote, and only the great wisdom of America’s Founders in establishing the Electoral College made possible his win.

I describe Donald Trump’s ascendancy to the White House as a MIRACLE!

Another miracle occurred in 1789, in the approval of our Constitution, as many of our Founders in America pointed out.  On April 30, 1789, George Washington took the first Oath of Office of the Presidency, as prescribed by the Constitution.  Having his right hand raised and his left hand on the Bible he stated,

“I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Washington then added, “So help me God”.  He then leaned over and kissed the Bible.  He then began to give his First Inaugural Address, stating:

“It would be…improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes…

“…No people can be bound to acknowledge…the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States.

“Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency…

“These reflections…have forced themselves too strongly on my mind to be suppressed…

“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality; and the preeminence of free government…which can win the affections of its citizens and command the respect of the world…

“We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as deeply, perhaps [as] finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people….

“I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the Benign Parent of the Human Race, in humble supplication that, since He has been pleased to favor the American people with…a…government for the security of their union …so His divine blessings may be equally [displayed] in…the [peaceful] consultations…on which the success of this Government must depend.”

(Washington, George. April 30, 1789, Thursday, in his First Inaugural Address. National Archives, Original work and facsimile, (complete text), No. 22 (Washington: 1952). Jared Sparks, ed., The Writings of George Washington 12 vols. (Boston: American Stationer’s Company, 1837, NY: F. Andrew’s, 1834-1847), Vol. XII, pp. 2-5. John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution—The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, A Mott Media Book, 1987, 6th printing 1993), pp. 117, 123.)

While Donald Trump is certainly no George Washington, shouldn’t we fall on our face before God and admit our need of His wisdom and leadership!  Shouldn’t we resolve in our hearts to pray that we and our government servants would do that very thing?

Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—and for your children!  And you won’t like what that brings to you.  I’m Don Pinson; this has been Think About It.