Sunday, October 31, 2010

Christians Arise!

This politically active writer was astounded by certain information tendered by CNN during the previous three election cycles. The fact was that a mind-bending 75% of Christians don’t vote! If that wasn’t enough to rattle one’s eye teeth, the report went on to advise that 25% of those who did vote, voted for the Devil’s man of the hour.

The impact of this deliberate and inexcusable inaction is almost incalculable. Stop and think; there would be no close elections at all if Christians would just vote. Almost all of the elections in the previous decade have been lost or won by a hair’s breadth and some involved great controversy. Please hear this…..there would be no abortions and homosexuality would no longer be shoved down our throats (including trying to convince our grade school children that it is normative). We would be spared the political correctness. Prayer would be returned to schools along with other freedom of expression. We would not be threatened and hampered by lawsuits by the Godless ACLU (an anti-American socialist group from its inception) by merely erecting a nativity scene or a cross. We would have freedom of religion instead of freedom from religion. We could escape the insanity of liberalism altogether.

Yet, for all of this, those who profess to be Christian in their faith are voting for those who delight in the persecution of believers and who believe that most Christians need to be locked up for the safety of society. They vote for the removal of freedom of speech so that pastors can no longer preach against evil without fear of being jailed.

How can such things be justified in their minds? What thinking is it that would deceive them in to thinking that God is “in control” and He will use such evil to effect His will in the earth?! Why would God enslave Christ on this earth (we are the body of Christ) rather than have Him free? Why would God purpose that Christians commit “suicide by government” rather than have life and that more abundantly?!

It’s time to throw off such deadly and unscriptural doctrines that disenfranchise believers from the political system. If they do not, then the political system will, uncontested and by default, rule over them with an iron fist. It was Pericles who stated: "Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you." Likewise, English statesman, Edmund Burke advises this: “All that is required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”.

The Bible is more than clear that we are to: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). If we are not “doers of the word” but rather are “hearers only” (being deceived), the devil will not flee. He will remain and will win the elections.

“Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge…..” (Isaiah 5:13)