It’s happening, isn't it? The negative rhetoric keeps escalating and the facts and positions are all but disappearing.
Yup. We are on the downhill slide toward November 5—Election Day.
But it’s important, isn’t it? We have a leader to choose—an important one—so we have to make a choice.
Do I vote for one of the two most likely to win because I firmly believe in him or her, or do I vote for one, even though I don’t like that person, just to make sure the other candidate doesn’t win?
Or do I remove myself from that fray and choose one of the lesser known wannabes to show I support neither of the major parties’ choices even though my choice has no chance of winning.
Or do I write in my own candidate for president hoping there are enough likeminded others that by some miracle this candidate would win?
All those are viable choices in the upcoming election. However, we have one more choice we need to make, a choice which came to me after I saw the following window decal:
“No matter who is president, Jesus is the king.”
True.
So we can choose to be part of the political pandemonium, asserting our positions with anyone within earshot or “educating” our unenlightened neighbors and friends with the “truth.”
Or we can choose to pray—for the decision we need to make, for the candidates who are running, and for the rest of the American voting populace who have that same difficult decision to make.
Then we can trust that God indeed is in control of the outcome ( . . . for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God (Romans 13:1).
This choice is important because it is a choice between chaos and peace. Perhaps not in the future of our country but most definitely in the realm of our hearts.
The picture below—taken recently—reinforced the power of God, His love for us by the beauty He has provided for us, and the peace that can come from recognizing this.
I have also attached the video of CeCe Winan’s song “That’s My King.” She recorded her new album in from of a live audience, and you can see the exuberance of her audience. If we (and they) truly believe the words being sung, then we really should be able to trust God for our future—all of it—even the political one--with the same unrestrained joy.
Yup. We are on the downhill slide toward November 5—Election Day.
But it’s important, isn’t it? We have a leader to choose—an important one—so we have to make a choice.
Do I vote for one of the two most likely to win because I firmly believe in him or her, or do I vote for one, even though I don’t like that person, just to make sure the other candidate doesn’t win?
Or do I remove myself from that fray and choose one of the lesser known wannabes to show I support neither of the major parties’ choices even though my choice has no chance of winning.
Or do I write in my own candidate for president hoping there are enough likeminded others that by some miracle this candidate would win?
All those are viable choices in the upcoming election. However, we have one more choice we need to make, a choice which came to me after I saw the following window decal:
“No matter who is president, Jesus is the king.”
True.
So we can choose to be part of the political pandemonium, asserting our positions with anyone within earshot or “educating” our unenlightened neighbors and friends with the “truth.”
Or we can choose to pray—for the decision we need to make, for the candidates who are running, and for the rest of the American voting populace who have that same difficult decision to make.
Then we can trust that God indeed is in control of the outcome ( . . . for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God (Romans 13:1).
This choice is important because it is a choice between chaos and peace. Perhaps not in the future of our country but most definitely in the realm of our hearts.
The picture below—taken recently—reinforced the power of God, His love for us by the beauty He has provided for us, and the peace that can come from recognizing this.
I have also attached the video of CeCe Winan’s song “That’s My King.” She recorded her new album in from of a live audience, and you can see the exuberance of her audience. If we (and they) truly believe the words being sung, then we really should be able to trust God for our future—all of it—even the political one--with the same unrestrained joy.
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