Being obedient in Our voting

When it came to needing community leadership, in a nutshell, God instructs his people to choose amongst themselves men, having wisdom, and fearing him.

This weekend Jerry had us in Ezra. Now at chpt7:10 shows a qualification of Ezra which I think was why God had him leading the people. For Ezra had had prepared his heart to seek the Law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach the statutes and ordnances in Israel.

So rather than thinking your throwing away your vote on someone who has no chance of being elected, or being stampeded to “ we must vote for whoever will keep out_____ ( fill in the blank)” It is paramount that we instead seek to be obedient to God. Even if all of the Christian community wound up voting for their respective uncles, as Wilson used as an example, we would be better positioned as a people for God to move on our behalf then if we set aside HIS principles in the name of winning.

I am tired of winning elections and then our leaders acting like the people we were trying to defeat.

We must trust God rather than the reason of our minds. Its not our being unified on a candidate that is important but rather that the Lord see his people unified in obedience to his word.

If you still struggle with this, it’s probably because you still haven’t Heard
Swansons talk from our UCFC conference back in oct. Its an idol smasher.
I leave you with a quotation from Otto Scotts 1991 article on the “The shape of events” which illustrates what can happen when a small number will continue to stand.

Tolstoi, in his War and Peace , described how the Battle of Borodino, which determined Napoleons defeat in Russia , was decided by the fact that one battery, unaware of the Russian order to retreat, kept firing. The French, in the confusion, mistook that unceasing cannonade as a sign that their offensive had failed, and themselves retreated. But the battery never knew what it had done, nor did any other branch of the Russian army….

This battle I believe involved about 200,000 men, hundreds of artillery pieces and tens of thousands of cavalry. Decided by one battery, about 8- 12 artillery pieces. Yes this smells of the finger of God too. We stand on Gods word with, as Jason kept stressing this weekend, faith, that God is in control of the results no matter what it looks like to our eyes.