What is the importance of the steadfast love to the leadership (including government)?

[Leonardo Von]

What is the importance of the steadfast love to the leadership (including government)? 

•    Pro 20:28 -> “Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.”.
•    Psa 21:7 -> “For the king trusts in the LORD, and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be moved.”.
•    Isa 16:5 -> “then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David one who judges and seeks justice and is swift to do righteousness.””.

Steadfast love seems not to have anything to do with political and legal system. After all, we are used to seeing the government making use of the enforcement in order to compel people to fulfill the laws that they imposed. The more the government is rich in weapons, the more stable it looks to be. Nonetheless, try to enthrall people at this way implies in revolt, hatred and in many injustice (after all, nobody knows all the truth (1Cor 13:9); not to mention that many laws are unfair, most of the judges, district attorneys and lawyers are corrupt).

And the Holy Scripture is clear:

•    Pro 16:12 -> “It is an abomination to kings to do evil, for the throne is established by righteousness.”.

Furthermore, we can’t let of mentioning that the legal process is very expensive (and, obviously, inaccessible to the poor). And the Holy Scripture warns:

•    Pro 29:14 -> “If a king faithfully judges the poor, his throne will be established forever.”.

But, what is the importance of the steadfast love and faithfulness in the government? 

•    Pro 16:6 -> “By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.”.

The true government needs to keep the order, not by the terror of the nemesis, inasmuch as:

•    1John 4:18 -> “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.”.

The true leadership aims to recover the sinner, manifest Jesus Christ to them. In the Old Testament, the order was kept by cruel punishments:

•    Deu 13:5 -> “But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.”.
•    Deu 17:7 -> “The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.”.
•    Deu 17:12  -> “The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands to minister there before the LORD your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.”.
•    Deu 19:19 -> “then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.”.
•    Deu 21:21 -> “Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear. 
•    Deu 22:22 -> “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. 
•    Deu 22:23,24 -> “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. 
•    Deu 24:7 -> “If a man is found stealing one of his brothers of the people of Israel, and if he treats him as a slave or sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.”.

The target of all nemesis was purged the evil from their midst. And I ask you: Did this work? If you have doubt, research into all the history and try to find a kingdom who worked perfectly through the juridical and political system.

As Paul instructed us to pray for the authorities (1Ti 2:1,2), may the verse below be our pray:

•    Psa 61:7 -> “May he be enthroned forever before God; appoint steadfast love and faithfulness to watch over him! ”.

So, have a good day praising Jesus thus:

•    Psa 101:1 -> “I will sing of steadfast love and justice; to you, O LORD, I will make music.”.