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David Perdue is a U.S. senator from Georgia.<\/p>\n

I don’t know much about him, other than he’s a Republican and — perhaps because he’s a Southern Republican — he’s probably quite conservative and devout in his faith.<\/p>\n

He spoke today to the Faith and Freedom\u00a0Coalition conference in which he was talking about how we should pray for those in leadership. He mentioned the president, Barack Obama.<\/p>\n

“We should pray for the president,” Sen. Perdue said.<\/p>\n

Then he mentioned an Old Testament passage to illustrate his point.<\/p>\n

“May his days be few,” Perdue said in quoting Psalms 109:8, drawing some cheers and applause from the GOP-friendly audience. It’s a nice passage and, taken by itself, has a light-hearted political twinge to it, which is one of the more fascinating elements of the Bible; one can put many passages into whatever secular context you want.<\/p>\n

But wait! This particular Psalm says much more. Here’s what verses 9 through 12 tell us:<\/p>\n

“May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.<\/em><\/p>\n

“May his children wander about and beg, seeking food far from the ruins they inhabit!<\/em><\/p>\n

“May the creditor seize all that he has; may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Let there be none to extend kindness to him, nor any to pity his fatherless children.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Hmmm. It kind of loses its light-heartedness. Yes?<\/p>\n\n

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David Perdue is a U.S. senator from Georgia. I don’t know much about him, other than he’s a Republican and — perhaps because he’s a Southern Republican — he’s probably quite conservative and devout in his faith. He spoke today to the Faith and Freedom\u00a0Coalition conference in which he was talking about how we should … Continue reading Yes, pray for the president<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15],"tags":[540,610,6306,1679,3410,6305],"class_list":["post-15172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","category-religious-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-bible","tag-david-perdue","tag-faith-and-freedom-coalition","tag-old-testament","tag-psalms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15175,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15172\/revisions\/15175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}