The Choice Is Ours
Are you praying about the forthcoming election? I am. I will leave the result of my prayer in God’s hands. I only know He said “ask.” I want to do my part with confidence He will do His part.
I heard a speaker recently say we should not be concerned about the election result, we will do it all over in four years. True, BUT! What if in those four years something happens and the opportunity to vote has been taken from us. What happens on election day will influence what happens in the next four years, and what happens in those four years will determine the nature of America thereafter.
The speaker to whom I referred defined himself as one who believes God is sovereign and determines destiny. I, too, believe God is sovereign, but in His sovereign will He chose to give human beings a free will.
The Old Testament leader Joshua challenged his people as follows: “… if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord” (Joshua 24: 15).
In light of that example God may very well be allowing us to choose who we will serve. There is a great disparity of choices.
As the framers of our Constitution exited their assembly Elizabeth Willing Powel asked Benjamin Franklin: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” To which Franklin responded: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
The question of our day is whether we choose to be governed as we have been by a republic form of government or a socialist oligarchy.
Rather than trying to define the latter I ask that you look at the examples of Russia, Venezuela, and Cuba. Do you really want that? The modern day national Democratic party strongly leans in that direction and if in power will likely seek to lead us there. There are many good patriotic Democrats who do not desire such, nevertheless their party does. The policies they advocate are covert Socialism.
Often we don’t know the value of what we have until we don’t have it. Let us abrogate that principle by valuing what we have as not being perfect, but the best there is.
There is a lot not to like about the candidates of the National Republican party. However, in running from a bear let’s not run into a lion, in this instance the National Democratic ticket.
A person voting for a pro-abortion candidate on that issue alone is voting for the rest of the party’s socialist agenda also. Do you really want that?