Liberia: Kill the Goliath of Corruption

One of the most difficult prayers in Scripture is the one Jesus prayed in Luke 22:42, when he said "... not my will but your (God's) will be done." In the recent political events of our country, if many of us had our will, we will be planning the inauguration of another person and not the president-elect. However, here Jesus teaches us that the will of God is bigger than our wills, and as the prophet Isaiah put it, "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:9).

In the Old Testament, when God was ready to choose the next leader for the country of Israel, He sent the prophet Samuel to the house of Jesse to anoint one of Jesse to lead at the time, even the prophet Samuel thought it was one of them as well. But, God said to them, "The Lord does not look at things man looks at. Man looks at the outward... but the Lord looks at the heart" (I Samuel 16:7b).

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