Luke 3:19-20 So Is It Spiritually “Wrong” to Decry the Wrongs of Leaders?

Now John the Baptist didn’t “elect” Herod. But he sure didn’t hold back from what he thought about him or even from rebuking him for ungodly actions. Seems to me that it’s not just a right Christians in at least some nations may have---at least in this example, it was a responsibility. At least it was for the prophet John. And the word “rebuke” does not necessarily mean shame as much as help and restore.

Let’s see what we can learn from the man John and the man Herod. Perhaps in some ways it can speak to us in our day, and help us to see “what shall we do?” in our current political situation where we at least for now still have a voice to decry things that hurt and help restore what is good.

PRAYER: Holy Lord, thanks for everything you include in your word. Thanks for the men of old who chose to be bold and call a bad spade a bad spade. May we as Christians not hide behind fear couched in plausible excuses for not getting involved where we should.

May your Kingdom come----and your will be done. First and foremost, in us, today.

In Christ’s name, Amen

FOCUS SCRIPTURE:

Luke 3:19-20

New International Version

19 But when John rebuked Herod the tetrarch because of his marriage to Herodias, his brother’s wife, and all the other evil things he had done, 20 Herod added this to them all:

He locked John up in prison.