So, you want a revolution?

People long for direction. They respect authority, they fear authority, but sadly they often misplace authority. We are taught in the bible that God is our ultimate authority. We have a government outlined for us within the scriptures, but we often forget and follow our own ideas and notions. We tend to follow our own politics and direct ourselves. We tend to chose our own kings.
“We want a king!” The people came to Samuel and asked him for a king as other nations have. Samuel was a busy man. He was a traveler and was gone quite often. His sons were not walking in the right direction. When Samuel was gone, his sons were in charge of his work, but they were not doing a good job. When the people of Israel came to Samuel with their request for a king, he knew that a king was not what his people needed and was very upset by this news. He prayed to God and asked for answers. God told him in 1 Samuel 8:7, “Listen to all that the people are saying to you; it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me as their king.” He told Samuel to warn the people about what would happen if a king took over. Samuel did so, but they did not listen. They wanted a king like the other nations.
Disaster comes with imperfection. Israel had a perfect King, but they wanted what other nations had. Unfortunately, Israel was blind to the fact that what they wanted was something imperfect. They rejected a perfect king and a straight government structure only in the prospect of rising up something new. They rejected a perfect king for an imperfect king. They were warned about the disaster that this would cause, but they did not listen. Consequently, they were to have a king who would take their sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses. They were to have a king who would take the best of their fields and vineyards only to give them to the king's attendants. He would take food and money, and wealth of any other kind. He would do these things and so much more, and yet the people still wanted a king.
During the French Revolution, the same ideas were applied. The people rejected a good Godly government and, as a result, were challenged with the disasters of the French Revolution. It was not only the loss of their wealth that they suffered, but the loss of their lives.
Even now, our government takes this shape. Without the heart to want God, we settle for disaster. Imperfect leaders who do not base their politics on Christian principles, but they use worldly human ideals control our country and impact our lives. If we set our government according to Christian principles and set God as our highest and most powerful authority, we would prosper as a nation.
When Samuel warned his people, but they chose to not listen. Israel wanted with an imperfect king who would take their wealth and children. The French Revolution became a revolution of murder and death. We look at these examples in history, we study them, we talk about them, we even write papers about them, but we do not learn from them. In our nation today, we have our wealth taken away and given to others and our children taught in ways that will only perpetuate the problem. We promote promiscuity with our media and educate children about “safe sex” out of wedlock. Then, we murder our unborn children when plans don't go as expected. We have our rights taken away and children educated for us. We have redistribution of wealth and people get paid to take care of our elderly. All of this is conducted and enforced by our state government.
If we centered our government around our true ultimate authority, we would not have as big of a problem with promiscuity. We would have no legal abortions (I also believe that because of the decrease in promiscuity, the demand for legal abortions would go down as well.) Those who needed help, such as the elderly or jobless, would be helped in a Christian way and not with government handouts and nursing homes. If our nation had it in their hearts to trust in God, as our late motto stated that we do, our country would have prosperity and less fall.