Lord willing....we do not know what a day brings....I will enter a voting booth on November 5.....vote for senator and representative and a few other things....and leave the question on president....blank. They may give me an....I voted....sticker....but if this comes up in a conversation with a Christian friend or acquaintance....(this has already happened a few times)....they invariably tell me....usually in disgust....that not voting for Trump is voting for Harris.
In a strictly political sense....this makes sense. Yes...not adding a vote to one candidate gives a one vote advantage to the other candidate....but this whole issue of casting a vote is not as simple as that.
I've heard often....and I'm sure that you have....that a response in this situation might be something like this...."No....by not voting for anyone....I did cast a vote....a vote of protest." This makes sense also....but isn't likely to win any debates.
I know a man who has a sign in his window that says...."2024....Vote For Jesus." The message is clear....depend on Jesus over mere men....and once again it makes sense.
So taking all of these things into account....as I admitted....they all make sense to a certain degree....but there is more in this overall realm of the concept of voting!
I wrote a post a few years back titled.....Advantage Pilgrim....about two good friends that I had over many years. One has since died. We worked closely together for over three decades....and had many conversations on life....and on the gospel. One friend openly and consistently....and politely....over all those years....took the position that there is no way to know any of this stuff about God. The other man loved to talk about these type of philosophical issues. In fact that's about all he wanted to talk about. He would talk inquisitively about Jesus or Paul or Israel....but then he would say with a smile....'Oh I don't believe any of this in a literal sense.' He is the friend who died....of Covid related issues. The last time I saw him was in a Barnes & Nobel. He spied me first....came over and talked....asking a question about the Apostle Paul! He wasn't on the way to being converted....he was just intellectually interested!
OK.....I'm already taking too much of your time. Here is my point. On the biggest issue of all to man....these two friends of mine in this instance....they voted....so to speak. It wasn't a protest vote....and by not believing....it wasn't a vote for Satan. It was just a vote saying in effect....'No....I will not believe....that's my vote....at this time.'
Believe it or not this is related to my original statement that I will in the voting booth....(Lord willing)....leave blank the oval for president. My vote is my vote on life....I am a sinner saved by grace. I believe those sixty-six books comprising the Bible are the very word of God to us. And in that book it tells me to trust in God....Father, Son, and Holy Spirit....and not in man....and not in armies....and not in power. My voting for Trump....who is probably a genuine biblical false prophet....("our best days are yet to come"...they are not)....and possibly as the Apostle John describes them....'an antichrist'....("So now many antichrists have come")....would be placing my trust in man....and in armies....and in our own powers.
I listened to an older Charles Spurgeon sermon today on the return road trip from Ohio. It was preached on December 5, 1858. Spurgeon was a young pastor at the time. That sermon generated this post....for Spurgeon....the Prince of Preachers as he is known....is in as much as saying throughout the sermon....'You have a vote....cast it today....not tomorrow....Jesus is calling you today.'
You can simply Google...."Make Them Come In! Charles Spurgeon sermon."
