Good morning on this last Saturday of October. Tuesday, November 2nd, is the day of our mid-term elections. As I was preparing to write today's blog, I received yet another of those pesky political telephone calls whereby some person, either live or through a prerecorded message, encourages me to vote for a particular candidate. This call is one of a google of calls I have received during this election cycle. Then there is the incessant political advertisements on television, sometimes as many as four to six in a row which fill the airwaves. When you add the blizzard of political mailings, handbills, posters and newspaper ads, it is an overwhelming avalanche of solicitations plaguing your senses. It seems this year is worse than any other for this cavalcade of contacts. If you are like me you will breathe a sigh of relief when it finally ends. But in spite of the nuisance of these constant advertisements, we need to be reminded that it is our God-given privilege and responsibility to carefully exercise our right to vote. Every Christian should thoughtfully analyze each candidate, determine where they stand on the issues, weigh those positions in the light of their Biblical and personal importance, and then go to the polls and vote.
When you weigh your vote consider what Samuel said about the candidacy of Saul as their chosen king, "Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen, that there is no one like him among the people" (1 Samuel 10:24). Now that's the kind of candidate we should seek to vote for!
Tomorrow's sermon is another on the subject of revival.
I hope I'll see you there.
Mel Brown