Today in church, one of our college-aged members read Proverbs 24:21- 25 (NKJV), scripture on which he had been meditating for several months in the context of next Tuesday’s election:
My son, fear the LORD and the king;
Do not associate with those given to change;
For their calamity will rise suddenly,
And who knows the ruin those two can bring?
These things also belong to the wise:
It is not good to show partiality in judgment.
He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,”
Him the people will curse;
Nations will abhor him.
But those who rebuke the wicked will have delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.
Change has been a predominate theme in the presidential campaign. But the passage above instructs us not to associate with those given to change. Some other translations of that passage use the word “rebellion” instead of change in verse 21.
I will not tell you how to vote. I will instruct you to pray, ask God to show you how to vote, and vote in light of scripture. Are you being asked to vote for, and therefore associate with, a candidate who seeks to change this nation from its Judeo-Christian values? Are you being asked to vote for a candidate who regards as righteous what God has called wicked?
Unless we are firmly tethered to God, we will drift with the natural flow of this world. As believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, though, we are called not to drift with the current, but to swim against it with all our might.
So pray. Search scripture. Vote. And on Wednesday, no matter who wins, begin fervently fulfilling our privilege and obligation from 1 Timothy 2:1-4:
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.