ROMANS 13:1
"Everyone must submit to governing authorities. FOR ALL AUTHORITY COMES FROM GOD. Those in positions of authority have been placed there by God."
Some people say that if so and so is elected president of the united states, they will leave the country. Many people are very unhappy when their party is not elected to a certain position. The power to tax is the power to destroy and many rebel at the idea of someone in authority taking their money. You may be in a very small minority within your city, state or country and it bothers you that you are not given the respect and power of the majority. Sometimes we find that the dumbest and most amoral among us have risen to positions of authority and we just can not understand why this happen!
This is the answer that we all must learn and assimilate. Although men think they are powerful and they cause there destiny and fortune in life, there is a more correct answer. Those who are in a governing position and authority over you got there because of God's power. All authority comes from God. Not just some or a little bit, but ALL AUTHORITY COMES FROM GOD! So anyone who rebels against authority is really rebelling against God and what He has done and they will be punished. Everyone should be loyal to their civil and governing authorities.
There is no authority unless it is by God's permission. He sanctions all those who have authority over you and they exist by God's appointment. Remember Caesar Augustus who called for a census of all Roman citizens and put in motion the arrival of Joseph and Mary in Bethlehem, and the birth of Jesus as the prophets foretold? Caesar thought he was emperor and a divine God, but it was the Lord that controlled him and all his actions that he could never even understand. So the next time someone is elected president and you just can not take it anymore, remember that God placed him there and there is a purpose that you will never understand. Just do not rebel. If you do, you rebel against God.
