“How are the mighty fallen, and the weapons of war perished!” 2 Samuel 1:27.
A headline in one of the national ‘dailies’, commenting on the ‘fall from grace’ by Nicola Sturgeon, former leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party, expresses the startling and sobering character of recent events in Scotland’s politics.
How indeed?
The most important element of the many-sided answer to this question is the solemn Biblical truth: “Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man (or woman) soweth, that shall he (or she) also reap,” (Galatians 6:7) and that God “will render to every man (or woman) according to his (or her) deeds,” (Romans 2:6).
Nicola Sturgeon, a woman it would be easy to consider as atheistic in her outlook, since her political policies have largely been marked by an anti-Bible characteristic, has felt at least something of the fate that awaits those who believe that they are greater than the Lord and can victoriously defy His truth and triumph over Him.
From being, as the columnist claims, ‘once the most popular leader in the Western world’ she has descended to a police cell and questioned regarding the financial scandal surrounding SNP funds.
I believe that few will fail to see the connection between her support for sodomite/transexualism, manifested in the case of male rapist, Adam Graham, who demanded that he be called female and be housed in a woman’s prison. She finally said of Graham in February of this year that he was ‘almost certainly’ faking that he was ‘transexual’!
That was a stating of the obvious since every such claim is a FAKE!
The case of Nicola Sturgeon is another case of the Lord warning, in mercy, that He cannot be defied. Those that attempt to do will taste the bitterness of utter defeat and shame.
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation,” Romans 13:1-2.
Sincerely in Christ’s name,
Ivan Foster
June 13th, 2023