This war with Iran was a war of choice. There was no imminent threat, as Tulsi Gabbard and other experts have said.
President Trump chose a war. It backfired. It was not a fast, easy, and tidy operation that could be viewed as a “win”.
Now there are consequences. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. It will continue to be closed. The world will not go back to February 27, 2026, and the world that was. The world has been forever changed.
King David, on the whole, made a lot of good choice and had a lot of “wins”. But there were times he disobeyed the Lord, and as God is no respector of persons, even though David was king, he had to deal the reaping from his choices, just as we all do. A portion of that history is below.
II Samuel 24:11 For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,
12 Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.
13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
14 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the Lord; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
15 So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
17 And David spake unto the Lord when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father’s house.
18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the Lord in the threshingfloor of Araunah the Jebusite.
19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.
The difference between King David and President Trump is that King David was a man after God’s own heart. He sought to follow the Lord, and when he made a mistake, he repented, and asked forgiveness and made the reparations required. When God asked him to do something, he followed through.
President Trump made a choice. It has brought consequences. President Trump will have to do the hard thing in order to resolve this. He will have to admit it was a mistake to go to war, make reparations, and meet the demands of Iran.
If he does not, perhaps leaders from other nations will pressure him to do this because the closing of the Strait of Hormuz affects the citizens of their nations and true leaders will take care of the citizens of their own nations. That is why they are leaders.
“You have the freedom to choose, but you’re not free from the consequences of those choices.” (Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That’s Why You Have One)