Your Vote is a Choice
I want you to know that the goal of this post isn’t to convince you to change parties. It’s to get you to think about the outcomes of your choices.
Jesus is Lord over politics. That’s why it’s essential to consider what happens when you cast your ballot and how your choices impact your family, faith, career, and society in this cultural moment and into perpetuity.
I want you to know that the goal of this post isn’t to convince you to change parties. It’s to get you to think about the outcomes of your choices.
In recent speeches, the president remarked, “Everybody wants to make it a referendum, but it’s a choice between two vastly different visions for America — significantly different.”
Every time you vote, you make a choice — and if most voters agree with you and say “Enough!” — it does become a referendum. There’s a reason why people call this the most important election of our lives because it is a referendum on a vision for America.
Because our behavior is tribal, we tend to vote along party lines. There will always be candidates with whom we agree or disagree. Yet is that the way you should vote? As Christ-followers, we should approach each election prayerfully and intentionally, understanding that our choices on the ballot aren’t for a candidate or party but for ideologies that support or oppose God’s plan for redeeming humanity.
“But we are citizens of heaven, where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. And we are eagerly waiting for him to return as our Savior.” Philippians 3:20, NLT
Politics is a game of propaganda. Likely, many things you hear in the news and subsequently believe may not be accurate. Google, Facebook. Twitter and other tech platforms choose to censor citizens, suppress information, and collaborate with the US government, “quietly broadening its efforts to curb speech.”
“With flattery he will corrupt those who abandon the promise. But the people who know their God will be strong and take action.
“People who are wise will help many to understand. But for some time they will be defeated by swords and flames. They will be captured and looted.”
Daniel 11:32-33 (GOD’S WORD Translation)
Adam B. Coleman writes about the choices we must consider:
“They’ve shown themselves to be authoritarian elitists who were willing to use all apparatuses to force you to comply with their nonsense.
They would shut your business down in an instant and label your job as being “non-essential” but say that Walmart, Costco, and Target can have hundreds of people inside it at a time. Paying our bills & feeding our children is essential, I don’t care what a politician says.
I would love to have two common-sense, viable political parties to fight over but from my view, there is only one that is even remotely close to common sense. There is only one that isn’t enforcing perversion on our children. I have no choice but to vote for them.”
This Republic isn’t God’s chosen nation, yet the freedoms, opportunities, and resources we have are valuable to God in his purpose to” bring all of history to its goal in Christ.” (Ephesians 1:10)
How you vote reflects your view of the world. Do the people you vote for support ideologies and policies for life, families, freedom, and faith? Or do they support ending life, destroying the family, limiting freedom, and suppressing faith?
When you vote, you make choices to
Protect and preserve life (or not).
Keeping communities safe (or not).
Support parents’ rights to know what their children are taught (or not).
Protect children at every age, from the pre-born to teenagers (or not).
An economy in which your family thrives or an economy where you struggle to survive.
Maintain the value of your citizenship (or not).
Protect your rights as a citizen (or not).
When you vote, you have some big choices to make. It’s not about the candidates or their personalities, your vote helps decide which ideas move forward in culture.
Good ideas advance God’s Kingdom and help people flourish. Bad ideas hold God’s people back and cause people to suffer.
Francis Schaeffer offers this perspective on ideas in his book, “A Christian Manifesto.”
“These two world views stand as totals in complete antithesis in content and also in their natural results … It is not just that they happen to bring forth different results, but it is absolutely inevitable that they will bring forth different results.”
Good ideas have consequences. Bad ideas have victims.
Your vote is not just a choice — it’s your voice. Don’t squander your opportunity to raise your voice and play this part in God’s plan to redeem people for his glory.