An Unknown Future

Posted by: Kaylan Christopher on October 20, 2008 Biblical Values •

So have you made your choice yet? The debates are over. The accusations are flying. The candidates are consistently bashing each other on the topics of energy, spending, taxes, and health care. It’s go time.

It looks like it’s going to be another tight race this year. So in this time of uncertainty, how should you respond? Wait in anticipation? Get out and act? I have two suggestions: pray and vote.

Pray first. Pray for the candidates. Pray for Americans. Pray for our government. Pray for God’s will to be done in this election. Then vote. As an American citizen, it’s your responsibility to get out and vote. And as I’ve suggested before, vote your values, not because you’re following the popular trend.

The Bible says, “Since no man knows the future, who can tell him what is to come? No man has power over the wind to contain it; so no one has power over the day of his death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it. … I know that it will go better with God-fearing men, who are reverent before God. Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow” (Ecclesiastes 8:7-8, 12-13).

We don’t know our future. We don’t know the outcome of the coming election. And we can’t be sure of what’s going to happen when whoever is elected takes office and begins his “reign.” But we do know this. God is in control and He’s given us an opportunity to act in a way that is reverent and glorifying to Him.

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Comments

We are all responsible for our decisions and actions to a Holy God according to His Holy Word, the Bible! There is a lot of it I don’t understand but some of it I do and 1 clear part is ‘THOU SHALT NOT MURDER”! As we legally kill 3200 babies a day through abortion and I believe that is MURDER, as a follower of Jesus Christ as my personal Savior I have never and shall never vote for anyone who is for ABORTION! That is my litmus test for every candidate, regardless what label he or she may wear!

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