Addendum: Vote Wisely, America!

Americans will go to the polls on November 6, the day after tomorrow, to vote for the candidate they feel will be the best president for the next four years. Doing so is a RIGHT, granted to us by our matchless Constitution.

As we assume this right we will vote for the man, the administration he will put together, that we believe will afford us the best opportunity to maintain the “inalienable rights” granted by the superior document that our founding fathers bequeathed to us.

The “inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” have been enjoyed in great degree by the citizens of this nation for over two hundred years. If there is one grave danger to our continuing to enjoy these rights, it is the fact that we have become complacent about them; we take them for granted.

We can’t begin to fathom that we will ever be without them—rather like the frog placed in cold water over a gradual heat that intensifies until it takes his life without his ever realizing his plight, we are in danger of allowing our freedom to be eroded gradually—and we won’t realize we’ve lost anything until our freedom is gone.

As you contemplate your vote, America, require yourself to define the basis for your vote. Is it party loyalty? Is it skin color? Is it perception of personal
expediency (the ‘free phone’ for example)? Is it based on a candidate’s adherence to the Constitution? Is it based upon a candidate’s adherence to the law of God?

Each voter must assess his own motivation—and each voter must be mindful that the vote he casts will impact not only himself, but generations that will follow. Each voter must ask himself if American freedom is worth voting to maintain. Each voter must assure that he does not vote away his children’s opportunity to live in a free nation where every man is limited only by his own resolve.

Those promises of ‘free’ government benefits? Remember Esau who sold his birthright for a bowl of porridge and lentils (see Genesis 25:30-34). What the government can give you, it can take away—and it will, once you’ve sold your freedom for its ‘bowl of lentil stew’.