Something
to think about - American Elections
First you must know, I am a biblical
voter. Not a Christian voter, for not
all Christians are biblical. For we
know a tree by the fruit that it bears.
I'm neither a republican nor a democrat.
I have duel citizenship. I have a responsibility
to the kingdom of God and I have a responsibility
to my nation here on earth which reflects
my higher kingdom. I'm not one of those
who sit around and complain about what
my government isn't doing
for me.
So yes, I do my research. I pray and then I
vote by what I know is right according to God's
righteousness, to bring His kingdom
here on earth as it is in heaven. So when I vote,
I do my best to honor God with my vote, not
man.
None of us are perfect and there
is no perfect candidate, there
never has been, thus, we will never
live in a perfect world until Christ
comes back in the flesh and time is no more.
I am so thankful that God has put me here and
given me the right to be able to vote.
I did not ask for that right, but it has been given
to me to do so. I will be a good steward of that vote.
It is very important for us to discern
all of the key issues of this nation. God's
fingerprints are all over the creation
of this country.
God says, "righteousness
exalts a nation" - not economics.
When we seek righteousness, all
these other things will be added
to us. So from a biblical stand point,
we cannot vote on behalf of ourselves.
We cannot vote for what is good for me, I must vote on what
will promote righteousness.
If everyone did this, prosperity
would come as a result of it. God will see to it.
He is our provider, not the government.
It is up to us whether the righteous will rule or
the wicked.
God has been very specific on issues
of government here on earth. Taxation,
Global Warming, Immigration,
Marriage, Health Care, Transportation,
The Poor, Social Programs, Etc. God
has covered every issue that is raised.
God has also prioritized them.
Out of the over 613 'laws' that
were handed down by God to Moses, His 10 Commandments
are the top 10 of all those laws. If we would
only just keep the "essence" of those
10 laws, righteousness would
reign. So therefore, we too must prioritize
when we vote.
He's also said, another way that
exalts a nation is through the Judges
of the land. Judges are a very important
issue. Right now we have only 4 righteous
Judges out of the 9.
Again, it is up to us whether the
righteous will rule or the wicked. If we don't
respect the "right" to life,
which is foundational, we will not
respect the "right" of private
property, we will not respect the "right"
to keep and bear arms, we will not respect the "right"
of religious freedom or the "right"
of free expression.
All these "rights" plus
many, many more have been handed down by God, not
by man and the founding father's adopted
them in the beginning of this country. And when you have
wicked judges, we start loosing
our "rights".
Our "rights" are a precious
thing.
For it is written in our Declaration
of Independence:
"...it becomes necessary
for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with
another and to assume among the powers
of the earth the 'seperate' and 'equal'
station to which the Laws of Nature
and of Nature's God ENTITLE them"
and also
"We hold the truths to be self-evident,
that ALL men are created equal, that they are
ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR with CERTAIN
UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, that among
these are Life, Liberty and
the pursuit of Happiness".
We have to be very careful of how we vote,
so my priorities must first be,
Judge's, and their stance on topics as
Abortion, Marriage and then beyond
that will come health care, economics,
wars and all other issues.
It is unfortunate that at least
50% of all voters will vote on the basis of a 30
second TV commercial. Anybody
can tell you what you want to hear in 30 seconds.
All candidates have voting
records
and that is what we should seek,
not the way they look or how great their commercial
was, not how they tickle our ears in their speeches
or their campaigning.
We can't believe what they say, we
must only believe what they have done. And now
that we have access to the Internet, we can see
everything they have ever voted
on.
"Project Vote Smart" ( http://www.
votesmart. org
) is a good resource for this type of research
because they don't care if you are liberal,
conservative, right, left,
up, down. They simply put out the candidate's
voting records on every topic
they have ever voted on.
You can even see how all lobby groups
rate each person from President all the way down
to the pee-on's that are running for a government
offices. You can also go to the Library
of Congress website ( www. loc. gov
) and see every single vote and every
single statement they said while they
were voting.
Concerning the governments
responsibilities, we definitely
lack on what it's true role and responsibility is
and should be.
For instance, in our country we
have a Social/Justice gospel
going around which is the eradication
of poverty. People believe that the
government is supposed to be the one
who is responsible for this issue.
This is far from the truth. It is the responsibility
of individuals and of the church, which
are the people of the land, not government.
Jesus taught, to sell what you
have and share and give to others. God said to
farmers when they harvest their fields,
don't harvest the corners so that the
poor could come in and harvest food for themselves.
But since people won't do this and are
only looking for profit, they want the government
to do it.
That creates a problem.
When government does it. It is
ineffective, but when people come together
to help the poor the job gets done and it becomes very effective.
If we give money to the government to
help the poor, 85% of that money will never
leave Washigton D.C. because it gets
stuck in the bureaucracy, which
does nothing to change the condition
of the poor.
Statistics show that faith-based
programs get results. For when the government
tries to get involved trying to change
people or lives or behavior, nothing
changes because the government
cannot love, it has no compassion.
It shouldn't have compassion, because
that is not its role in our society.
The Government is a very poor vendor
of social services. The government
takes our money, which only a small
portion of it goes to the poor, to do a poor job
of taking care of the poor. What should
we do? If we don't want it to come out of our pocket,
then we should get the government to
give us a tax credit for giving to the poor.
From the biblical standpoint,
there is no where that God says the governments
responsibility is to take care of the poor.
So I cannot allow my vote to have that priority
on that basis.
Government is not accountable
for those things, we the people are.
Now, please don't get me wrong, personally,
the poor and the homeless are very important issues
but concerning the governmental
elections, it is not top priority.
It is God who has originated government,
and has made very clear mandates and executed
how it is to operate in the book of Exodus. When
we try to take a tool and do something with it that it was
not designed to do it will never function
correctly.
People must realize that the government
is never going to take care of us in the manner
of many of the issues that are out there. It is
never going to do it right even if it
tries. Why? Because it is not its role or its
responsibility.
Governments role is to bear the
sword, provide protection
and defense, and they are to execute justice
for its citizens. They are to create laws.
The laws they are to create are not for the good men, but
for law breakers, bad men, murderers,
perjurers, thieves, etc. That is its
purpose.
The government is not a service
industry and was not designed to be a service
industry. All issues that deal with service
to others, God says that we the people, as individuals
or the church, are to do those things.
Not the government. It's only purpose
is to protect what God has given us.
We must be very careful not to lose those
rights that God has given us to hand over to a
government to take on a role it was never
intended to take. We will surly lose
our rights.
If America continues to be divided
as the candidate's are, we are going
fall.
Where is that going to leave
our grand children?
I feel sorry for the troops when
they come home. Is it going to be like it was
during the Vietnam war? The only difference
is, during Vietnam, those people
were drafted to fight a war. The boys we have in
there now....they
enlisted on their own free will. Why?
Because they understood that if we
didn't fight on foreign land,
the battle would be here in America.
They are the real hero's.
Something to think about.
Please when you vote, be a good steward
and vote to
honor God.
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