The Bible wrote about government corruption, from bureaucracy to downright wickedness. There's nothing new under the sun, but what does God command us to do with it?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. On our TV special the other day, it was about lawfare and Western governments, not just America. Talked about the European Union and Le Pen and France and free speech doesn't exist in England.

Police knocking on doors. We played a video of police knocking on someone's door because of a social media post in the middle of the night. You have to take down this social media post. We've played a video of it. It's insane. Do we need to take a minute to talk about lawfare against Trump or against Americans today or corruption in our government. Look what Doge is uncovering every day. And it ranges as a scale from downright wickedness all the way to ineptness.

And I don't know where everything lies on that scale somewhere, but we're going to get rid of all of it. That's the point. We're going to root all of it out. The other day, Doge reported that the irs.gov website, the login button is not in the upper right-hand corner

where it is on every other website. And we naturally go to the upper right-hand corner to log in. For some reason, they put it randomly in the middle of the page. You gotta scroll down and find it in the middle. So the Doge guys are like, that's weird, let's move it. And they went to the IRS engineer and the guy's like, oh, we can't, like the earliest we can get that done

is July 27th. It's like what, 103 days from now? 103 days? How can that be? So the Doge guys got it. How long do you think it took?

How long do you think it took the Doge guys to do it? Took 71 minutes. So that is the ratio of private sector to government. Now that's just an emptiness. There's nothing corrupt there, but I don't think I'd imagine that's just inept.

How many minutes is 103 days? That's the question. So the ratio of private sector to government is 71 to 150,000. 103 days is 150,000 minutes. So 71 minutes it takes the private sector, it takes the government 150,000.

Sounds about right. Let me do a little more math here. One to 2,000, there you go. So one to 2, 2000 ratio of efficiency. Amazing. I'm going to put that in the inept category. But then of course, there's the corruption. We saw that with all the NGOs getting tens of billions of dollars funneling the money

back around to themselves and to the politicians. It's all got to go. It's all got to go. I was asked, challenged by my producer the other day to prepare a segment on biblical examples of corruption, of corrupt rulers and corrupt leaders. And I said, Oh, that's the easiest task I've ever been given in my dire life. Let's do it. The first one that came to mind, uh, I don't know, maybe we go with the King of Judah who sacrificed his child in fire for Moloch.

I don't know, maybe that's not corrupt, maybe that's more on the wicked side. The Bible says King Ahab was the worst. First King 1630 says that he did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. There was never anyone like Ahab

who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols." So we have our massively wicked leaders. The Bible also speaks of bureaucracy and the wickedness and corruption of bureaucracy. Check this out, Ecclesiastes 5.8.

If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter. Don't be surprised. Don't be shocked. You see oppression and perversions of justice and righteousness, what are you, are you surprised? Don't be shocked at that. For high official watches over high official and higher officials are over them.

It's bureaucracy because no one's ever accountable for anything. And it leads to oppression and don't be shocked when you see it. That's how common it's always been thousands of years ago. Proverbs 28 to says because of the transgression of a land of the people of a nation because of the transgression away from God many are its princes.

How about that?

That's not good. By the way, that's a curse. It's not good to have so many rulers and princes. That's bureaucracy. That's what they're speaking of. So because of your sin, because you're disobedient, now you have to have a giant bureaucracy. It's a curse.

Bible scholar Bruce Walke, about a hundred years ago, he said, as a result of the land's total break with the Lord, they need a large bureaucracy to keep an eye on one another. An Arabic curse once said, may God make your sheiks many. That's where we are right now. May God make your bureaucracy enormous. I curse you America. That's what Doge is trying to root out. But it goes on Proverbs 28, but by a man of understanding and knowledge, right will be prolonged.

Good, godly, wise leaders can be a blessing to a nation.

They can lead people to be free, but oh, that can be a problem too, because individual people can be corrupt as well. This is what we did focus on on the, on the TV special, uh, second Timothy three. He said, but know this,

that in the last days, perilous times will come.

And he goes on and he talks not about terrible things that will happen. He doesn't talk about famine or disease. He talks about men. He said for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers. How many of these things do you see in our culture today?

Without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty. Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away. Lovers of themselves, it's amazing. That's the first one.

And that's where all the other ones come from, lovers of selves. And it's wild that our culture today is all about the self-help book. And the self-help book is all about you're amazing. You need to love yourself more.

And here's Paul saying, um, that like perilous times and like, what, what do you mean, Paul? Well, people would be lovers of themselves, but that's all we're being told to do is love ourselves more. But the rest of this list, lovers of money, blasphemers. I saw a picture the other day somewhere. I don't even know why of Kesha. She have a new album or something. Uh, Kesha, the pop star, she's dressed as a nun and scantily clad and you know, whatever.

Something blasphemous happening. Oh, so edgy. Without self-control. Wow, we can give countless examples of these. But Paul said that these ideas, these sins, they creep into households and they lead people from the truth. He said, men of

corrupt minds resist the truth. I love the end of Paul's message. He says, but you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given it by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction

in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." That's who we need to be. That needs to be our goal to be someone who's thoroughly equipped for every good work. So here's Paul telling Timothy of dangerous times that are to come dangerous times, uncertain times, chaotic times, and how some people

are swept away by them, some people go into hiding, but that's not the right posture, the right posture is to stand strong, knowing that you're standing on the word of God and that he will protect you and you'll have everlasting life. Final thought here. Jesus saw plenty of corruption in his day, spoke against it. Mark 12.

Then he said to them in his teaching, beware of the scribes who desire to go around in long robes. They love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seat in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, who devour widows' houses." So there they love themselves. That's what that first part's all about. They love themselves. And they devour widows' houses. They take advantage of widows. They take advantage of the most vulnerable people in the community for their money. Jesus hated

that. He condemned them specifically. How about Micah? Check out this condemnation and the why now hear this. You had to the house of Jacob rulers, the house of Israel who abhor justice, who pervert all equity, who build up Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. How about this? Her heads judge for a bribe. Her priests teach for pay and her prophets divine for money. So we have here are leaders being bribed, priests demanding payment in order to teach

people's people, God's law and prophets wanting money for prophecy. It's all super corrupt. What did God say of it? Proverbs 29, four by justice, a King builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts, tears it down. So what do we do?

First note, nothing new under the sun. It's one of the main themes of this podcast is there's nothing new under the sun. It's amazing. When you read the Bible, it's all there. It's all the, everything, everything that goes on today is there in the Bible, it's all there. It's all, everything, everything that goes on today is there in the Bible.

Yesterday's segment was about consumerism. Well, how can consumerism be in the Bible? Where's that? Where's that in the Bible? I don't know, Luke 12, Jesus said, "'For one's life does not consist

"'in the abundance of possession.'" It's like, oh, like right there. It's all there. That's amazing. I love that. Take great peace from that. That's the main point of this podcast is to get peace.

There's nothing new under the sun. Second, no God is in charge. And specifically on this too, Daniel 2 21 says he controls, God controls the course of world events. Oh, like what?

He removes kings and sets up other kings. Oh okay great awesome. We should worship him then. We should get in line with him. Third point is have no part in this corruption. Ephesians 5 11 take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness instead expose them. And number four, follow God. Psalm 37 27, turn from evil and do good. And you will live in the land forever for the Lord loves justice and does not forsake

his saints. They are preserved forever. Corruption, lawfare, weaponized government, nothing new. Don't be surprised. God's in control. Have no part in it. Expose it. Follow God. You'll be blessed forever. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Transcript. No commercials. blessed forever. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Transcript. No commercials. On the website MikeSlater.Locals.com.

What a week it's been in the wonderful world of global trade! Trump has put on a master class for the ages, but there are still ways to go. In the meantime, today's episode is the most important (and least talked about) thing to discuss regarding trade.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here.

We have spent the last week on the radio talking about trade, tariffs and all the rest. It's been a really fun week. I want to present here though something that we haven't done on the radio. I'm not quite ready to have the conversation in full over there. I'm going to ask for your help as well to lead me in the right direction so I can get some better wisdom on this. But there's a very important conversation we need to have about our culture in America. And cultures are good because you can

change them. You can change your culture. You look at things that aren't good in your culture and you change. You look at things that are really good and you lean into those and that's important to know. You're not stuck in a culture. You can change parts of your culture. We still have a ways to go with the negotiations with the rest of the world. Let me give the bottom line with this.

What Trump did this last week was reorganize and reorient the entire world against China. So the whole world was told you're either with us or you're with China economically. If you wanna be underneath our security umbrella, you have to side with us. And if you want to sell your stuff to Americans,

we're the ones who buy all the stuff, we'll get to that. Then you have to play by our rules and you have to choose us and not trade with them, the communists in China. We spent all these last few decades trying to couple with China.

Now it's time to decouple from China, but we need a multilateral approach. We need the whole world to be with us in this endeavor. How do we do that? Well, Trump just did it this last week. It was stunning, unbelievably orchestrated, art of the deal, unlike anything the world's ever seen.

Not done with it yet, but that's the play. Now, that being said, we in America have a problem I believe with consumerism. And I don't quite know how to have this conversation yet in the right way. But we are all addicted to,

first of all we're addicted to cheap crap. But we're also just addicted to buying things. We're a disposable culture, we buy cheap, we throw it away. And people have complained about it, people on the left have complained about this for a long time for environmental reasons. That part doesn't speak to me as I'm a conservative so I don't like wasting things but I don't

think consumerism is going to lead to global warming and an extinction of humanity. That's not it. I'm more concerned about how it affects our soul and how it affects our lives. I still have my grandpa's hammer. Do you have anything like that? That's been handed down for generations?

Something that was well-made, I guarantee you it was made in America. I don't think anyone in America has anything. Ah, yes, that's my grandpa's hammer. He ordered it online from China. Like that's not, there was no online when your grandpa was, but you know what I mean?

The thing your grandpa has that he handed down to you through generations was made in America. But now we're a disposable culture and we just buy junk and we throw it away. Your kid's toys. Oh my goodness. The toys.

I feel like the Grinch toys, toys, toys, toys. It's a all such garbage, such absolute plastic garbage. And you see what it does to our kids. They get this attitude of ungratefulness. They need more, more, more, as opposed to back in the day when you got a toy, that was your toy for three years.

That's your truck. Now we have a million trucks. Is it better? Our GDP went up. Our GDP has gone way up because we have a thousand toy cars. GDP is through the roof, but are we better off? I hope we can get back to the day when made in America means the best. When made in America means I'm gonna own this thing forever and I'm gonna pass this down to my grandchildren.

My grandchildren are gonna play with this toy. We buy toys now for Christmas, we know it's not gonna make it the month. A lot of that's cheap junk from China, but also our consumerist mindset. I just know it's not right. I can't articulate it well, but I just know it's not right.

I can't articulate it well, but I just know it's not. And I mean, I know it's not because it's in the Bible. Jesus spoke against it, Luke 12, 15. And he said to them, take care and be on your guard against all covetousness. For one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. It's pretty clear.

Coming up on Easter. Easter is a consumerist holiday. Even if you want to take Easter away from the resurrection of Jesus Christ and turn it into a pagan thing with bunnies and eggs, okay. But then it turned into a consumerist thing on top of that. Massive Easter baskets, right? It's like, geez, what in the world? But I guess that makes sense.

Paganism and consumerism, hand in hand. And again, real quick, before moms get insulted and taking away Easter baskets, there's a difference between buying some stuff and enjoying a thing that you buy for your family. That's gifts, I'm not against gifts,

but just mindless, thoughtless junk. Just because there's a cost to that. Not just a monetary cost, not just a global security cost, but there's a cost to our souls, for you and for the recipient, especially if they're a kid.

Here's stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff. There's a cost to that. Read Isaiah one, read him. Never told you go here. Your homework is go read.

Isaiah.

Isaiah one is brutal. Let me read the first part here. Oh heavens and give ear. Oh earth for the Lord has spoken. is brutal. We read the first part, do not consider. A last sinful nation of people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corruptors. They have forsaken the Lord." God's saying that the people of Judah are dumber than dumb animals because at least the ox knows its owner. At least the donkey is dumb as it is. At least it knows who

takes care of it. But the people of Judah don't even know who takes care of them. We are worse than dumb animals. When it comes to worshipping God.

There's more.

In Isaiah 1, that's just like verse 4. You should read the whole thing, but let's jump over to chapter 2. This is verse six. For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with Eastern ways. They are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they are pleased with the children of foreigners.

Meaning they're messing around with idolatry and like weird stuff, like soothsayers and spirits and false gods, stuff like that. Check this out. Their land is also full of silver and gold. So listen, it starts off with Eastern ways, soothsayers, no good. And their land is full of silver and gold.

There's no end to their treasures. Their land is full of horses. No end to their chariots. We'll get to that in a second. Their land is full of horses, no end to their chariots. We'll get to that in a second. Their land is also full of idols. They worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made. People bow down and each man humbles himself. Therefore, do not forgive them. We'll get to

that last part in a second too. But all of this prosperity that in Isaiah God God is describing all this prosperity has led to the idolatry of money. God's not against money. He's not against having money. He's not against being rich. It's where your heart is. It's where your trust is. And God is saying here that, that people worship the work of their hands, things they've made, which is a form of worshiping yourself, your own creation, as opposed to the God who made all of it possible.

And I love this last part, people bow down and humble themselves. You're like, hold on, isn't that good? Does the people down bow and each man humbles himself? Well, good, right? No, they're not worshiping the right thing.

This is just saying that, yes, people will worship something. They will bow down and humble themselves to something. In this case, they're doing it to the wrong thing. So let's jump over to a second Chronicles nine. This section here is all about Solomon's wealth. And it's crazy to read again for the sake of time at second Chronicles nine, if you'd like to read it yourself, but, one verse, the king made silver, Solomon made silver as

common in Jerusalem as stones. Crazy amounts of wealth. Now this was after Solomon said that his main desire was wisdom, so God blessed him with wisdom and wealth and he got it. Worth noting, who was it who gave the great sermon on the vanity of wealth? Of course, Solomon and Ecclesiastes. But check out this last line here. So this whole long description of all of Solomon's wealth, and then it ends with,

and they brought horses to Solomon from Egypt and from all the lands. And if you read the whole verse four, you're like, okay, like it's just like another thing. Like everyone's always bringing up stuff and his wealth is accumulating, people bringing them gold, all the rest. And then you're like, oh, they brought him horses too. Okay. Sounds okay, whatever.

But Deuteronomy 17, 16, this section is entitled rules for the rulers and leaders. All right. Rules for rulers and leaders. But he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses.

For the Lord has said to you, you shall not return that way again. That's what Deuteronomy says, do not do this. And that's exactly what Solomon did. Why not? Why would this be a rule? Why would this be a law against the leaders that's articulated in Deuteronomy? The idea is that you should

not put your trust in your military might. Here it's represented by horses, a powerful weapon at the time. Adam Clark, early 1800s Bible scholar, he said, lest the people might depend on a well-appointed cavalry as a means of security and so cease from trusting in the strength and protection of God. Deuteronomy then says, nor shall he greatly multiply silver and gold for himself. Why not? Lest his heart turn away. That's what it says right in the Bible.

Lest his heart turn away. My concern with consumerism. Oh, it increases the GDP. Absolutely. It's great for China too. They love it.

I believe consumerism has turned our heart away from God. That's all I have for now. If you have any other thoughts, shoot me an email at slaterradio at gmail.com. How do you convince a culture addicted to consumerism, addicted to GDP growth Addicted to things addicted to buying addicted to advertising Built on this How do you make the argument that consumerism is killing us. That's stuff

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This trade "war" (it's not a war, that's propaganda) may seem chaotic and arbitrary and inconsistent, but it's not. There's a plan and a purpose. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. We've been talking on my SiriusXM show lately about these tariffs, of course, and how if we want to see through this change, we need two things. First a clear vision of how bad things were. Otherwise, what's the point of changing?

Why go through this trouble? And we have to have a clear vision for the hope of where we can end up. Otherwise, none of this is worth it. So I'm just going to go back to what I know. And yesterday we shared the story of the Israelites. They forgot how bad it was to be a slave in Egypt under Pharaoh.

They forgot that God was with them the whole time, protecting them, delivering them, parting the sea for them, with them every morning with manna at night, with fire guiding the way. Goodness.

And they didn't trust God to lead them into the promised land. They lost sight of how good it was going to be in the land of milk and honey. I think it's the same principle here, same outline. We can't forget that what we had in our economy wasn't working for the people in the country. And if we kept going down the road,

it was gonna lead us off a cliff. And we have to have a clear vision of what good can come from staying the course. By the way, someone sent me this song. It's by Keith Green. I don't know legally how much I can play someone's song on a radio here, but on a podcast, but

here's just a little bit of it.

Here we go.

Here we go. So you want to go back to Egypt Where it's warm and secure Are you sorry about the one-way ticket When you thought you were sure? You want to deliver the land you promised But now it's getting so hot I'm sorry you're out here in the desert Stead of your own backyard Eating leeks and onions by the night Ooh, I'd breath for dining out in style

Ooh, my life's on the skids Give me the pyramids

That is a catchy little tune right there. I'm not gonna lie, that is catchy. Now listen, you're gonna yell at me if you've been around the block for a while. I've never heard of Keith Green. I know, late on me. You've never.

The kids this weekend with the wife went to the play, The Sound of Music. I've never seen The Sound of Music. You've never, what, what? I can't even listen to you anymore. I can't, what Green, but trust me, I will be all in on Keith Green. Or someone sent me this song and it's called,

So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt? And I was like, I don't know what to expect. I didn't expect that. That was awesome. So thank you for sending that my way. We made this point that I just articulated

on the radio today and I played a clip of Oliver Anthony. Do you remember Oliver Anthony? He wrote and sang the song, Rich Men North of Richmond back in 2003. We had a high school dropout, broke, alcoholic guy living in a log cabin in the woods.

Made this song, recorded it, and broke through everything. I spoke to a lot of people. His real name's Chris Lunsford. Grandpa's name is Oliver Anthony. And he gave a speech at this big conference in England. I've never heard him give a speech,

he doesn't speak a lot at all anywhere. But he started off with Ecclesiastes 10, that's a good start. And then he said, he said, I don't know how many conversations I've had with people face to face, probably thousands at this point.

And I realized now that we don't have any clue to how many around us are really broken. How many are silently suffering and barely hanging on more often than not. They start the message with, hey, I'm a nobody, followed by horrors of addiction, mental illness,

financial and household struggles, oftentimes incredibly complicated stories that I suspect they may never have told anyone before. But they still have the hopes of a hopeful future and they don't want to give up no matter what. Then he told the story of the hurricanes back last year and it is native North Carolina. The amazing things he saw that people did when the government failed,

but regular people, the nobodies, stepped up. Here's how he ended his speech.

And while FEMA was hoarding donated generators and denying people on their applications, it was the nobodies of the world that were driving ATVs and Jeeps with chainsaws up mountain roads rescuing people. There was two guys we met that hot-wired a bulldozer from a quarry to cut a navigable path

through a washed-out road in two days that the state said would take months, allowing supplies to people who hadn't had contact with anyone in over a week. Volunteers were working 16 hours a day, taking supplies on everything from horses to helicopters.

It was humanity, there in front of my very eyes. And it was in that seven days in North Carolina that changed everything for me. It was people saving people. Even with lack of leadership, failed protocols, and overwhelming inefficiency from the state,

the nobodies took up the slack. And so I'm just here to remind you that we don't need our false idols. We should no longer rely on politicians who bow down to money to manage our city or our states. We need to find the real leaders everywhere and empower them. Western North Carolina was proof to me that there is an army of good people left in this world who want to do good things.

We just have to give them places to gather and give them the ability to act. And so I'll close with this. Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong, for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. And so, I'll see you on April the 5th in Spruce Pine, North Carolina for the first official gathering. It is now my life's mission to revive rural America one town at a time.

It's called the Rural Revival Project. So thank you for listening.

I look forward to learning more about that, the Rural Revival Project. He started off with Ecclesiastes 10. I look forward to learning more about that, the rural revival project. He started off with Ecclesiastes 10. Let's talk about that today. He didn't say Ecclesiastes 10, which I appreciate. He didn't say, well, let me start with Ecclesiastes 10.

He just said words of Ecclesiastes 10. There is an evil I've seen under the sun, the sort of errors that arises from a ruler. Fools are put in many high positions while the rich occupy low ones. I've seen slaves on horseback while princes go on foot like slaves. Let's go back a little bit. Start from the beginning of Ecclesiastes 10. That's what he quoted. But let's go, verse one. Dead flies putrefy

the perfumer's ointment and cause it to give off a foul odor. So does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor. So you can have a reputation of being wise and honorable, but just a little folly, a little foolishness can ruin that reputation. But I want to talk about this word folly a bit. So it's the most, when I think of following is what do you think of when you think of folly? I think of like an innocent mistake or goofiness, like a luveness. You may, you know, you weren't thinking the Hebrew is more than just a mistake. It's intention is more of a wicked person, someone who's shamelessly

immoral, someone who actively goes against God's Word and God's wisdom. Psalm 14 1 says, the fool has said in his heart there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works. That's a fool. That's more than just folly or silliness or something. The fool said there is no God. Now there's sometimes in the Bible when it does mean a little more of like someone who's mindless or not thinking clearly or something, but I err on the side of, oh, that means wickedness.

Another definition of that word fool is a vile or worthless fellow. All right, so keep going. A wise man's heart is at his right hand, the good one, but a fool's heart is at his left. And when a fool walks along the way, he lacks wisdom and he

shows everyone that he's a fool. Out here's Oliver Anthony's part. If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post.

Ooh, how about that?

Don't leave it. Do keep doing what is right. For conciliation pacifies great offenses. There's an evil I've seen under the sun as an error proceeding from the ruler, colon. So here's the error.

This is the evil. This is the error from the ruler. Folly is set in great dignity. Wickedness is set in great dignity. While the rich sit in a lowly place. I've seen servants on horses

while princes walk on the ground like servants. So a role reversal is what he's getting at there. So I love that first part. Don't leave your post, be faithful no matter what. And then it's important to know there's a colon here. So it says, as an heir proceeding from the ruler,

so here is the heir. Folly, wickedness is set in great dignity and the rich sit in a lowly place. So we have unqualified people at the top. Unqualified people have been put in positions of power and authority. Unqualified people, but the rich, or you can read here like a qualified person, like a meritocracy, right? The qualified person is down at the bottom, has no power to use their wisdom and virtue for good

Good governance matters Good governance matters in our country. We have a lot to unwind But in the meantime, it's not for us to worry

This is what the media and the left is doing with you right now They just want you to freak out all the time. They want you to think that everything's in chaos, but change doesn't necessarily mean chaos. The analogy I've been using, and I still think it's true, is when you Marie Kondo your closet. Remember that show, the Marie Kondo show? And she would take a closet,

and her method is you take everything out of the closet, and you put it all on the floor and you go thing one by one and you throw it away, give it away or put it back and you thank it. Thank you shirt for being such a great shirt and then you give it away. All right, does it spark joy? That was our, she was, does it spark joy?

And there's maybe a moment where it seems chaotic in the middle, but you gotta get through it and clearly at the end, it's way better. But it doesn't mean it's chaos, it's just a process. If maybe if you walk in on the middle of it, right? If someone else is Marie Kondo in their closet, you walk in, you're like, whoa, what is going on?

But that person as a method, there's something happening here. The Senator from Minnesota, Tina Smith, she was talking to the US trade rep about all this chaos and uncertainty. She said it's chaotic, arbitrary, and inconsistent. Oh, but it's not actually. It's not any of those things, but it will take time to get back to the system that does make sense and it's good for the most people. It'll take a minute to do it, but I think we'll get there. We have a lot to unwind, a lot to fix in our country. So in the meantime, let's take Solomon's advice.

Do not leave your post. And Psalm 37, this is one worth memorizing, fret not yourself because of evildoers. So there's Ecclesiastes talking about wicked people are put in positions of power and they're lifted up as people of great dignity and worth.

And it's, and the Bible says, don't you worry about that. Don't fret, not yourself because of evil doers. Be not envious of wrongdoers, even if they're in those positions, even if you're the prince who's walking the horse and the other person's riding the horse, don't be envious of them for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord and do good.

Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Do good. Delight yourself in the Lord. Oh, it's so good. So do trust in the Lord, do good. Delight yourself in the Lord.

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