Is is our right and duty as citizens.
If your Holy Spirit guided conscience allows you to cast a ballot (that is not a given), it is your right and your duty to vote.
However, follower of Jesus, be careful that neither your candidate, your party, nor your issues become your idol.
Hear this:
“Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. They collapse and fall, but we rise and stand upright.” Psalm 20:7-8 ESV
One way, dear followers of Jesus, that we can tell that politics has become an idol – is hatred. If you hate the other candidate or the people who support them, this is against the teaching of Jesus.
Jesus said to love your enemy.
James says: “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.” (4:17)
If you know you should love, and continue to nurture hate, for your own sake, examine your heart.
Ask the Lord, whom you apparently profess, to examine your heart.
So, vote Tuesday and then ask the Lord to help you, on Wednesday, love whoever wins. Even in the face of hate, we can love. Jesus empowers us to do so.
He did.
“Lord, help us love.”
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