My Boss Is God

Most authoritarian rulers think they are God. We have seen this throughout history with dictators of the right and the left, whom power sadly blinded to the point that they believed they were gods.

And the problem doesn’t end there. Not only do they believe they are gods, but they are usually surrounded by people who go mad (just like them) and will do anything to obey the orders of “that god.” There is an excellent film called Downfall, which shows how power drove Hitler and his main followers mad, so that they didn’t care about killing their own children, their own people.

That happened because Hitler believed he was the owner of the world, the boss of the world. But the only owner and boss of the world is God. When a ruler is clear that his position in the world is not only that of God’s employee but of God’s Beloved Son, things can work very well. Because a ruler with all the postgraduate degrees in the world is worth nothing if, deep down, he does not understand that his first duty is to his Father God.

But for this, Humility is needed, a word that seemed extinct in the world of politics and power. Knowing you are God’s employee is a wonderful thing, because God’s employee will never lie, never steal or let others steal, never sow hatred or discord, because those are among the commandments the Boss wants obeyed. The Boss has left us the road very clearly marked; all we have to do for everything to turn out well is follow it.

God’s employee in public office will know that his first duty is to Love God (not power or money) above all things, and his neighbor as himself, living to serve and not to be served.

God’s employee will always defend the fundamental values of the human person: life from conception to natural death, and the family and marriage between a man and a woman as the foundation of society. And he will know that education in values is fundamental to building a country on solid foundations, one that lets all of us proclaim, rightly, that we are the best country in the world.

God’s employee knows how to ask forgiveness when he is wrong, and how to kneel and ask for His help when he needs it (without showing off or making a spectacle). God’s employee will know how to ask others for help, because he knows that the only perfect one in the world is his Boss, and that he alone will never be able to solve every problem.

God’s employee is what we should have in the presidency, not only of Venezuela but of every country in the world. Because only by recognizing God and his laws as our compass can we build a better world for everyone.