Politician

An old superstition from the east encourages parents to predict their child’s future. Folk wisdom suggests that while the child is still a toddler, the parent should place on a table within the child’s reach, a bottle of wine, some money and a Bible. If the little one walks up to the table and picks up the bible, he will follow a spiritual vocation, possibly the priesthood. If he picks up the bottle of wine then hedonism is in the cards. If he picks up the money, he will probably become a business person or an entrepreneur.

The story is told of a new father, eager to plan for his son’s future who administered the test. He carefully positioned the three objects on the coffee table, watching eagerly what the little boy would do with them. The little guy walked up to the table, surveyed everything and slowly reached out his hand for the bible. Then he paused and picked up the money as well, placing it in the bible, finally he tucked the bible under one arm, took the bottle of wine in the other hand, and toddled off with all three, struggling to maintain his balance. The little boy’s grandfather stood over to the side, silently watching the whole scene unfold. When he saw the dismay on his own son’s face, he said, this is bad news. He is going to become a politician. We chuckle at a story like this because we tend to be quite skeptical about the men and women who inhabit the world of Politics. – (extracted from RZIM)

But what made our thinking to doubt about the politician, is political a Bad Job or God is not pleased with it? The present condition of our country is very bad as everywhere you see corruption, insecurity, injustice. The transparency indexing council chairman once said the country leads to poverty because of corrupt politician and they are above the law. The citizens of the country also play a trivial part of the corruption which enables the politician to enjoy lavish lifestyle while the rest are going to bed every day hungry. If at all a citizen come and raise their voice against the corrupt government he shall go disappear sooner or later.

Paul writes to Romans in 13^th chapter - Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. God perhaps allow certain things to happen in our life, society, country according to his purpose. It is in his ultimate will to make things let happen. My view is that a Christian can get involved in political activities or play a role to bring a reformation in society, but pragmatically it is going to be a tougher task to handle in the current society without compromise. The world says every good product comes with expensive price. If one wants to lead a life pleasing to god it takes complete surrender and sacrifice without expectations and ready to take the loss as profit.