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As much as I agree that good Christian leaders for our country would be nice, I sometimes get uneasy about the way we pursue that goal. Actually, I wonder to what extent God thinks it's important. 

In Jesus day, the Roman Caesar was possibly the most powerful man on earth. He didn't honor the Jewish God, but that didn't make any difference to God. Caesar did what God wanted anyway: Luke 2:1 "In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. 2 (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) 3 And everyone went to his own town to register."

We see it over and over again in scripture: the Assyrians, the Edomites, the Babylonians, all used by God for His ends.

Caesar only matters in the Christmas story for the effect he has on Mary and Joseph. Caesar sent them to Bethlehem, and Caesar's decree filled the inns. Thus, the baby would be born exactly as God had planned.

I think as we wait for Jesus to come, God would probably tell us to tend to hearts, not nations. You can't legislate faith; even if every executive and lawmaker in government was a Christian, that wouldn't make us a Christian nation. Jesus rules hearts, not political organizations.

When people come to know Jesus, they voluntarily do all the things we want to legislate now. If enough of us know Jesus, the law becomes irrelevant.

And it doesn't really matter who's leading; no president or Congressman can thwart the will of God. Sometimes God will give us Godly leaders to bless us. Sometimes He'll give us unbelieving leaders for His own purposes. Either way, we live obediently, and those men and women will do God's will. They can't do anything else.

Some day, every knee will bow to the One who once lay in a manger. It won't matter a bit what they believed the moment before; in the end we'll all Tebow.