Who IS running things? Who’s controlling the affairs of this world? the devil? Many concede that God reigns supremely in heaven, but has very little control on earth. Men have taken the material world (inanimate creation) and relegated its control to “scientific” principles and “mother nature”. Of course if it is denied that God created all things, it follows that things must be affixed to something else for their control. Then there’s the matter of salvation, whose control has been ascribed to the “wills” of men. Man is his own predestinator. I think that everyone believes in predestination, the difference being, who predestinates? Is everything ordered according to the impersonal abstract “laws of nature” or to the One that created all things? We only have one source to establish any matter in an absolute way, and that source is the Bible. But in this day of “higher learning” and “scientific wisdom” for one to call the Bible into a matter as a means of settlement is to make himself liable to fanaticism, out-dated, or puritanical. Throw the Bible out and you have no means to establish a matter, therefore no absolutes. Isn’t that where we are as a society? There is nothing really for sure; all is theory and theories change. What has this superior intelligent age developed but a confused unstable, machine running full stream out of control? This is a society that denies the control of a Sovereign Creator and assigns its control to itself and declares its own sovereignty and yet is in a super state of confusion and chaos due to its obvious lack of control. I personally am more comfortable with the outdated principle (the Bible) of establishing a matter. I believe the book of God answers to everything from the fall of a sparrow to the fall of a monarch. I believe that as scripture affirms “God works all things after the counsel of His own will.” It may be too simple for some, but it is very reasonable to me, that all things pertaining to time and the salvation of His people are working precisely “according to the eternal purpose which He purposed in Jesus Christ our Lord.” Do I believe these things as I make plans to go to the polls and vote this week? Should Christians vote? Should we become involved with politics? Will my vote really matter? The horrendous slaughter of millions of unborn babies resulted in the Moral Majority movement and more than 10 million previously unregistered voters, evangelical Christians, had not been voting. What about participation in the political process? Mr. Reagan was elected president in 1980. Did that solve everything? No, but how much worse things would have been; the “evil empire”, the Soviet Union) was stopped and freedom flourished around the world. Christians have a sacred duty to vote our convictions, beliefs and values. The Apostle Paul instructs us in Rom.13:6-7 that God ordained government to punish those who do evil and reward those who do that which is right. Government (the civil magistrate) is one of the three divinely ordained institutions in Holy Scripture along with the family and the Church. Will it turn out the way I want it to? It will turn out the way God determines it to, and that will be for my good and His glory for HE’S RUNNING THINGS: but I have done my duty as a Christian.
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