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Christianity and Politics

With the 2008 presidential race well under way, certainly Christian voters and more specifically the body of Christ should be concerned with the political platform of each United States presidential candidate.

It is the God-given right and responsibility of every born-again believer to ensure that they not only pray for the right candidate to be placed in office, but the believer also has an added responsibility to exercise his or her right to vote for that candidate as well.

We can no longer have our country run by those who say they are Christians but in actuality, their fruits do not line up with the Word of God. (Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit – Matthew 12:33).

We must ask God for wisdom and spiritual discernment when choosing a man or woman to lead our country. Presidential hopefuls will swing one way today on certain issues, but quite another on tomorrow dependent upon the voters they are trying to reach. These are not the characteristics of people who should lead our land. Why, because such candidates are doubled-minded. James 1:8 reminds us that a double minded man is unstable in all his ways. As well, verse 6 explains it further by saying that such a man wavereth like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. In other words, such a man or woman might certainly be pulled in by special interest groups, greed, self aggrandizement, or their own personal agendas.

In essence, what our nation is most in need of is a candidate who will stand on the righteous principles of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and one who will not totter, teeter, or waver based upon the populace of mankind. When the wishes of God are ignored, the result is that our nation will begin to flounder. And we are seeing that now! The moral compass of our country has taken a downward spiral what with it’s growing degradation, violence, sexual immorality, oppression, deception, apostasy, and greed. Sadly, because of it's growing apathy of God, our nation is also experiencing dire economic crisis, famine, earthquakes, floods, and other calamitous catastrophes. Those with spiritual eyes know these problems to be a direct result of our nation turning it's back on God.

If we want our nation to be blessed and to again be a land of plenty, we must turn to God for help. The Bible tells us in 2 Chronicles 7:14 that If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Psalms 33:12 reminds us in this well-timed passage of scripture: Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom He hath chosen for His own inheritance.

Our nation is in desperate need of God-fearing candidates who still believe in the inerrant scriptures of the Bible regardless of the growing apostasy in country or the politically correct who are shrouded in secular humanism and who assert that there should be a separation of Church and State.

On the contrary, the Church or more specifically the Body of Christ should be a viable force in the affairs of our nation from the local level to the national level, from the appellate court to the supreme court, from the nonprofit agency to the corporate enterprise, from the grammar school to the Ivy league university, from the town hall newspaper to the media conglomerates, and yes, even in some of our churches wherein a growing number of our church leaders are actually matriculating from seminaries but who question the legitimacy of the Virgin Birth. This is a travesty!

In summation, we must seek out candidates who love God with their whole hearts and not just with their mouths. What this means is that we can no longer vote for candidates because they say they with their mouths that they are Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Liberal. Nor should our choices be based upon ethnicity or gender along. We must vote for that candidate that loves God with all of his or heart and one who will not be swayed by capitalistic greed, self-gratification, or is apathetic to the needs of the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free.

How do we know then, who is the best candidate! Again, we will have to seek God and ask Him for wisdom and discernment regarding our choices.

This page last updated
February 22, 2008