I’ve just finished reading my third presidential bio, David McCollugh’s Truman. Truman’s life experience is so vast that he is hard to categorize. He was the true American. I rural farmer, a war hero, a small business owner, a machine politician, and accidental president. He was a husband, father, letter writer and friend. He dealt with perhaps the most difficult decisions of the century, using the atomic bomb in Japan, but not in Korea. But despite experiencing more than most of us do in a hundred lifetimes, he seems a simple, humble and gracious man.
Reading Truman is to me the clearest non-biblical example that God places the rulers of our world where he wants them, when he wants them there. I can see no good reason Truman became President, but I cannot imagine a better man for the job. Obama is barely into completing his first week in office, and he has already done things to make us crow and to make us cringe. Looking at history reminds me that no matter what “the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he wishes.”
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