Last night was the Presidential Debate, and everyone agrees that President Biden didn’t perform well, and serious questions were raised on whether he seemed capable of serving a second term. Some think it’s unconscionable that his handlers have let him go this far.

By contrast, the late Paul Stanley, friend of mine, former International Vice President of The Navigators, graduate of West Point, strong in body, was failing mentally in his last years. He just kept adding to his list of things “I don’t do anymore.” No more leading. No more speaking engagements. And he accepted it all with grace and humility.

Rather than speculate on what might happen or should happen in presidential politics, I think we would do well to just step back and remember:

God is in control.

The king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the LORD; he turns it wherever he will. (Proverbs 21.1, ESV)

For the LORD spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. And he will become a sanctuary… (Isaiah 8.11 – 14, ESV)

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. (Psalm 75.6, 7, KJV)

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. (Romans 13.1, ESV)