This is only to Christians. . those of you who want every aspect of your life to be filtered through His heart. If that's not you, then you can stop reading this now.
I have see many Christian's making their presidential choice with the same process as those who don't think God has anything to do with it. This simply ought not be. It's very troubling.
Our economy seems to be the main filter people are using, regardless of their faith.
Those who don't hold Christ as their "#1" are excused for making their selection with the seeing of the eye, the hearing of debates, watching polls, news media, opinions of political analysts and their own intelligence.
They ask questions and then rally around the person who checks all their "boxes".
They ask ...
Is he "electable"?
Can he beat Barack Obama?
Will he be able to make a difference in a way that I think is needed?
Does he have the money to go the distance in the campaign?
Will he be good for our nation's position in the world?
Does he answer questions the way I think they should be answered?
Does he sound clever?
But we who have genuinely made Jesus Christ our LORD,
we who stand firmly in our belief that the Bible is the Word of God
and believe that the phrase written therein about Jesus, "the government shall be on His shoulders" ...WE MUST ask different questions and use a different filter.
Our vote sends a message to God and to the world about the condition of heart and soul.
WE should be asking:
Will he steer our nation even farther from God... or closer?
Has he expressed concern about the spiritual condition of our nation?
Does he downplay his own relationship with God?
Is he going to protect the foundation of America as a Christian nation?
Do I see a history of his public life as a demonstration of his faith in Jesus Christ?
Will our selection send a message to God that we are most concerned with His priorities ...or our purse?
Will our choice send the message to the world that we count more on the wisdom of God and expect His hand on our nation or that we believe our great hope in human intellectualism?
I am convinced that God prepares a very qualified person, equips him with His heart and then offers that person to us, HIS PEOPLE.
I believe it is His desire that we choose the one He offers us and He watches to see if we will.
It is tragic that we never connected those dots in the last election and allowed human reasoning to cloud our judgement.
It is tragic that we seem headed in the same direction again.
I beg you to stop it.
I beg you to look at the soul of the man you want to be the next president. What will he do for the soul of this nation?
If you truly do this, I think we'll arrive at the same conclusion together.
Only one candidate has taken a stand in the spirit by calling the nation to pray because he saw the troubled nation and understands her first need is to return to God.
Only one of them made it poignantly clear that it DOES matter what the president believes.
Only one of them has declared that he will fight for our religious freedom and oppose those who believe that means freedom from religion.
He also happens to have a the most experience in running a government successfully and doing all of the financial things people need done, like balancing the budget and creating an environment where businesses brings jobs. He's handled natural disasters, international troubles and his state has added 40% of the nations new jobs since 2009. He's done such a good job at leading that has been re-elected 4 times. That's what I call "electability".
It is high time that Christians stop this secular nonsense and send the message to God and to the world that we recognize the man who is after HIS heart and believe that God will bless us if we'll send him to the White House.
It's in our hands. I believe it's more important than ever. What are your real priorities?
You know who I'm referring to. Don't you? Of course you do.
It's Rick Perry. I pray he continues on and gives the other 48 states an opportunity to catch on and have their say.
And I pray that we stand for him loudly, as I intend to.
Just one little after thought: Keep in mind that we are unlikely to agree with 100% of what any of them say and they are unlikely to achieve 100% of the promises they make.
Great leaders do not always make eloquent speeches.)
3 comments:
You make some good points, but Rick Perry definitely has his share of problems. One of them is that he endorsed Giuliani last time, who is about the most pro-abortion Republican out there. He also said at first that he didn't care if NY OK'd homosexual marriages, because that didn't affect Texas.
Rick Perry has his good qualities, but please don't make it seem as if Perry is the only logical choice for Christians. The group of evangelicals who recently met in Texas just endorsed Rick Santorum, and I wouldn't say they're exactly a bunch of fools.
Regardless of who one chooses, the main thing is that we pray for God's will to be done in this election, and that He will bring a miracle if necessary to stop Romney, assuming it is not His will for Romney to prevail.
Thanks for your input. There isn't going to be a perfect candidate since Jesus isn't running for office. (sadly, He probably wouldn't get elected either.)
I'm convinced that the heart, soul and relationship with Jesus is the MOST important credential for a Christian to consider when voting.
You're welcome. I agree that a candidate's relationship with Christ is the most important thing. And that will be reflected by their positions and how they've voted in the past.
Here's a little scorecard that compares all the candidates on some important issues:
http://savecalifornia.com/images/stories/PDFs/presidential_report_card_on_the_natural_family_011412.pdf
The key thing is that we keep praying (and vote when our turn comes, if possible), and then let God take care of the rest, because only He can work out the miracle we need.
P.S. I definitely agree that Jesus probably wouldn't get elected. ;)
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