TRUMP, bump, chump, lump, stump, forest … I enjoy playing about with words.

Donald Trump’s election has again ‘set the cat among political pigeons’.

The world wonders what this renewed presidency will mean for international treaties, relations and peace, and the care of poor and vulnerable people within The USA. What will the real cost of Donald’s ‘Mr Fix-It’ approach be?

Once again ‘Trumpit’ has divided Christians in the US and mystified us in the UK.

Whatever the after-cry and final analysis of Trump’s victory, the Democrats were possibly on a hiding to nothing following on from a treacherous economic period in power.

We pray that, like ego-centric Kings Nebuchadnezzar and Darius, who listened to good advisors like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, President Trump will humbly listen to godly wisdom. Though one might fear the furnace and lion’s den of his wrath and Nietzschean / Machiavellian tendencies, which see ‘results justifying the means’.

Trump’s ‘eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth’ undermines the ‘peace-making’ approach of Jesus:

In his book, The Art of the Deal, the President-elect writes:  “When someone crosses you, my advice is ‘Get Even!’

"That is not typical advice, but it is real life advice. If you do not get even, you are just a schmuck! When people wrong you, go after those people because it is a good feeling and because other people will see you doing it.

"I love getting even. I get screwed all the time. I go after people, and you know what? People do not play around with me as much as they do with others. They know that if they do, they are in for a big fight.” 

What might Donald Trump meeting the real Jesus Christ look like?

This charismatic and powerful president elect, who says, "I like to be good. I don't like to have to ask for forgiveness”, would surely find himself humbled to confess his sins and submit his life to The One True God. Better to have that encounter in this world and meet Jesus as Saviour than to hear ‘The Trumpet of The Lord sound’ and meet Jesus beyond the grave as ‘Judge’!

But, when we point the finger at someone else, can we see the three fingers pointing back at ourselves!?

Are we open to such a soul saving, conscience salving, direction changing, life transforming encounter with Jesus? Perhaps the saddest words in the whole universe are the words of Christ in Matthew chapter 7 verses 21-23 (Bible), “I never knew you.”