I love my country. I am proud of my American heritage. But loving America does not mean worshipping America. Patriotism is loyalty to principles, not blind obedience to power. God does not run nations on pride. He runs them on purpose.

Right now, America is in what Scripture would call an exposure season.

Exposure is not destruction. Exposure is revelation. It is when what has been hidden can no longer stay hidden. It strips away illusions. It shakes confidence in systems. It forces people to ask the questions they avoided when life was comfortable.

I have buried people. I have raised people. I have watched governments fail and institutions collapse. I have seen promises break and power abuse itself. And through every season of loss, rebuilding, and disappointment, one thing has never failed me. God.

That is why I do not panic when systems shake. I have lived long enough to know systems are temporary. God is not.

People are scrambling right now to find the one leader who will fix everything. The one who will shake it up and make it right. That hunger makes sense. But it is misplaced. We already have the only One who can truly shake a nation and heal it at the same time.

God.

When people ask why I supported Donald Trump, my answer is not because I believe he is righteous or flawless. It is because I believed the alternative leadership offered was moving further away from the moral foundation I recognize. I was not choosing a savior. I was choosing alignment.

There is a difference.

In both the Western Bible and the Ethiopian Bible, God repeatedly used imperfect leaders to expose nations and redirect history.

From the Western canon, He used Cyrus, a Persian king who did not worship Him, to free His people. He used Nebuchadnezzar, a proud ruler, to humble an empire. He used Pharaoh’s stubbornness to reveal His power. He even used Rome’s brutality to spread the Gospel.

From the Ethiopian canon, we see this same pattern of God ruling above kings. In the Kebra Nagast, the story of Solomon and Makeda, Queen of Sheba, is not just romance or legend. It is theology. It declares that earthly power must bow to divine authority. It teaches that kings rule by permission, not by right. Ethiopia’s royal line is portrayed not as self-made, but as accountable to God’s covenant.

In the Book of Enoch, which remains part of the Ethiopian Bible, rulers and watchers are judged for corrupting truth and leading humanity astray. Power is never neutral. It is either aligned with God or exposed by Him.

That matters for America.

Exposure always feels like chaos before it feels like clarity. When light enters a dark room, people squint before they see. That does not mean the light is wrong. It means their eyes were adjusted to darkness.

America is squinting right now.

Institutions are losing trust. Media credibility is questioned. People no longer know who to believe. And that is not accidental. When confidence in man collapses, God is saying, look up.

This is not about putting any man on a pedestal. It is about recognizing a season. God shakes nations by placing people in positions of power who will disturb comfort and expose rot. Not because those people are holy, but because the moment is necessary.

God loves America. But love does not mean exemption. Love means correction.

Israel struggled because it wanted to be like the nations around it instead of different. God never called His people to blend in. He called them to stand apart.

And that is exactly where America is stuck.

America struggles because it claims God while governing as if we do not need Him. We say His name, but we do not follow His ways. We quote Scripture, but we legislate feelings. That is not condemnation. That is diagnosis.

And this is where people are missing the real battle.

This is not an emotional fight. It is a spiritual one.

Both sides are pulling at our emotions. Fear. Anger. Pride. Outrage. Hurt. Identity. They keep us stirred up because stirred people do not stop and pray. Stirred people do not discern. Stirred people react.

That is why everything feels chaotic. Emotions are being weaponized. And when emotions lead, wisdom sits down.

If you are praying for God to guide you on who to support, you cannot lead with your feelings. This is not about who makes you feel safe, heard, or validated. This is about who lines up closest with God’s truth. You have to take emotion out of it, because emotions change. God does not.

We are standing at a fork in the road. Repentance or judgment. Humility or collapse. History shows both paths.

So no, this is not Democrats versus Republicans. That is too small for what is really happening.

This is about whether a nation will humble itself or harden itself.

Great nations rise. Great nations fall. God remains.

Patriotism means loving a nation enough to tell it the truth.

And the truth is this. No nation is exempt from accountability. No leader is above God. No power lasts forever.

Only God does.

And if this season is forcing people to ask who they really trust, then maybe that is exactly the point.