Lord, have mercy.
We need Your help dealing with our nation’s enemies. As individuals, you have asked us to love them. Yet, you have also given governments the right to intervene with force to stop evil.
It’s hard for our leaders to know how to reconcile those two things, for often they seem opposed to our limited minds. This issue is beyond our understanding, and so we need Your wisdom to guide us.
Lord, please protect America from using her power to take advantage of others. Help us find other means than war to reach the greater good. If ever we must engage, please help us to move with accuracy and altruism. Protect us from all unnecessary violence. And please, give our national leaders wisdom.
As individuals, help us to love those who want to hurt us. Help us to seek their good. Help us rest in the fact that You see all, and then help us trust You to bring justice. Show us when to act, and when to speak, and when to keep still. Above all, keep our hearts in love.
(Matthew 5:44)
(Romans 13:4)
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