Of Choices, Votes, Good, Evil

 

Of Choices, Votes, Good, Evil by Bill Wilson

I have been receiving hundreds of emails about various opinions on voting in this election. Many believe there is no choice in this presidential election. Some believe that it is predetermined who will win.

I know that when I was working in politics, Christians were involved at the local level in choosing candidates. We had committee members and chairmen, organizations of conservatives and Christians working together to choose candidates. That doesn't appear to be the case anymore, so the moderates and moderately Christian or non-Christians are choosing the nominees.

We have/had a choice, our choice was not to be involved as much as we could have been. Now we choose from the choices of others.

I do not believe that the president is already chosen. I do believe that the king-makers have hedged their bets and are doing whatever they can to place their most favored person--communists and capitalists alike (although all these moneyed people are capitalists, despite their hypocritical political leanings).

We must also be vigilant against voter fraud--it is a huge problem. Your choice on election day is a choice. You will vote. You may not vote. You may vote for one of the two-party candidates, or you may write in. But you will make a choice.

And any choice short of voting for Donald Trump is in actuality a vote for Hillary Clinton. How you justify that choice is what will make you angry at my last statement.

Our nation is at a crossroads for all the reasons you already know.

Things are going to get better or get worse by our nation's decision. I think so often Christians tend to over-analyze and use scripture to justify the way they feel or their actions. Its called isogesis.

Our free will is a gift from God and He sees how we use it. Our actions determine our situation, even after much prayer and supplication.

God not only gave us free will, He allows us to live out the consequences of our decisions. Maybe we blame God for too many things for which we ourselves are responsible. All choices, whether they be action or inaction, have consequences!

For me, I am not voting for the lesser of two evils. I am choosing/voting to get rid of an evil with hopes that we as a people can begin to change the godless direction of this nation.

We are at a pivotal and dangerous point where if we do not stop this, we are going to suffer even greater consequences.

Some will blame it on God's judgment (and to a large extent, be correct). But also, how much of these horrors we will experience are the result of our own inactions of not overcoming evil with good?

As Romans 12:21 says, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."

As I see it, my vote--and I will vote-- will be a vote of good intent and faith that the Lord may use it for His good purpose.

Be blessed and follow your heart as weighed in the balance of our Lord!

Do what you will.

I will.

Hopefully, we are in the Lord's will.