You constantly cast your vote for the kind of country you want by the way you conduct your life day after day. The things that you say and do speak colossally louder than your minuscule message in a ballot box. If you want to vote for respect, show it. To vote for prosperity, do honest and helpful work for it. To vote for social justice, treat all people with fairness and kindness. To vote for law and order, obey the law and always do what is right.
People who call themselves letter people live a lifestyle that matches their letter. Shouldn’t Christians live a lifestyle that matches their Savior?
Christ-followers are called to be distinctive from whatever society and country we live in. Let God the Holy Spirit empower and disciple you to discipline your desires so that they no longer conform to the pride and self-focus of the world around you but are transformed (Romans 12:2) by His forgiveness and grace and by the purity of His presence. Then you will be voting with your lifestyle for the kingdom of God and demonstrating King Jesus’ mercy and healing to everyone.
Self-focused desires
Will draw us away
From what God requires
And trap us in pride.
(1 John 2:16-17)
When sin is denied
And self-justified
It’s not qualified
For God’s mercy.
If you won’t confide
The wrong you have done
You’ll be unwilling
To truly receive
The great forgiveness
And deliverance
That God has supplied
Through Christ crucified.
(1 John 1:9)
Forgive and you will be forgiven. (Luke 6:37) To forgive someone 70 X 7 times is supernatural. (Matthew 18:21-22) We need to see more miracles like that! Let “Christ in you” empower you to be that kind of miracle.
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