Bro John,
I was riding down the road by myself this morning and I heard this question posed to me “what are your political affiliations?” It was as if someone real had just asked me the question.
I thought to myself, “How would I answer that?” Then I began, just as if someone was expecting a response, to answer. And as I was beginning to get these words out, trying to explain my thoughts in what felt like an awkward way, I was interrupted by an answer that I felt like was from God. (I think He asked me the question and then answered it for me too.) I heard this: “God’s children are not supposed to be involved in politics. In the beginning, God’s chosen people, Israel, had no affiliation with politics. God was their government. Their ruler and their judgment came through God’s anointed Judges, never someone voted in to exercise authority. It was only when Israel decided that they did not want God as their ruler and decided that they wanted to be involved in the world’s political system that they ever had to consider such things.”
Then the voice continued giving me my answer to that first question, in case I am ever asked it: “God is still the ruler of His children, and His children still have no business contemplating whom to chose to have authority over them. That is why I do not vote.”
Bro. John, I know that I have heard this before. But I just wanted to tell it.
Jerry
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Brother Jerry:
Sounds as if when you were told it, you were listening and that God has now re-inforced what you heard. Just pray for the men and women who are in positions of authority. The future looks bleak. It appears that God has completely taken wisdom from the leaders of this country — this wonderful country that has despised His love and His Son, in spite of the blessings poured out on the American people in the past.
But pray especially for the men to whom God’s people are looking for guidance in these hard times. The wisdom of the Spirit is the only thing that is going to take us safely through what lies ahead.
Pastor John