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Why we Vote for Someone

In the final days of a protracted election some friends think voting for "no one" is the highest ground to take as this one world slouches toward prophetic doom. Others urge us to get out the vote and get on our knees, thinking repentant prayer "the only way we can go, if we want to save our nation."

I will pray and I will cast a vote for someone. But what I will do in this election won't change God's ultimate and only WAY to save.

The only WAY settled into a young mom's womb in a forgotten corner of an Empire. Nine months later the only Way appeared in baby skin wrapped in cloths, placed in an animal trough of straw . . . such an odd way to start the only WAY to save.

The baby grew up a good Hebrew son. He obeyed his parents, attended the temple, apprenticed in his adopted father's small business. Around age thirty the one named Y'sua suddenly showed who He was, is, will always be. He is the Forgiver, the Healer, Faithful Friend of the despised and rejected, the least and the outcast. His biography says he was also a man despised, rejected, an outcast to elite rulers of that era.As for looks, he was not celebrity handsome, "no beauty or majesty to attract . . . nothing in his appearance that we should desire him (Isaiah 53:2)."

At his timing, one Passover week, Y'sua let rulers capture, torture, murder, and bury him in a guarded tomb. Two mornings later, despite the clout of imperial designs, He broke out of that tomb as Messiah, the only Savior, . . . the Lord God!

Holy God does not need us to do (or not do) one thing to save--a nation or even ourselves.God alone saves each of us, not merely to live for one government or for human-centered rights or for a particular ideology or "ism" or any peculiar, political persuasion.

Cast aside suspicions and angst this election day. Rest in Jesus faith. God so loved you and I that He alone saved us to be fully loved by Him. God saved us to be his family on Earth.

God sets us in places, in nations, for us to serve and participate and, if permitted,to vote as citizens, to reflect our caring citizenship in the kingdom soon to come.