Device of Satan

The 7 things God hates:

1. Haughty eyes.
2. A lying tongue.
3. Hands that kill the innocent blood.
4. A heart that plots evil (wicked schemes).
5. Feet that are quick to rush into evil.
6. A false witness who pours out lies.
7. A person who sows discord in a family.

Most Americans believe an American citizen has the duty to exercise their right to vote. The obligation to cast a ballot is so revered that not doing so is simply unpatriotic. If fact, some suggest, one forfeits their right to engage in any form of dissension against the current political structure if one does not vote.

Should obedient, loving, forgiving Christ followers participate in a corrupt pagan political system?

Do Christians give their tacit approval of an ungodly process when they actively support political candidates?

Luke 20:24-25 and Romans 13:1-7 are cited to explain how God expects us to obey our government officials. Does God ask His followers - His children - to following laws regardless of what those laws ask of us? No, especially if we are expected to partake in an ungodly activity or belong to a group that exhibits traits that aren't of God. He says to pay taxes and honor government officials, for they are His servants.

Taxes are mandatory and criminally punishable if they are not. In the same manner, God says disobedience toward government officials is disobedience toward God. But, a distinct difference exists between engaging in an illegal activity and abstaining from ungodly activity and sin. Voting is an individual choice. A failure to vote is neither illegal nor disobedient to government officials. Choosing not to vote does in no way dishonor God.

The current political system encourages and rewards dishonesty, greed, selfish ambition, deceitfulness, and other ungodly characteristics. It’s a system that serves and worships mammon. The last presidential campaign spent $2.5 billion on two men... men who have proven they will compromise their integrity for a fleeting chance to be the President (6 billion total spent on all candidates).

How many Christ followers would support a charity that exhibited the same values? Would they volunteer for an organization that exhibited the same behavior? What Bible believing Christian would condone lying from a school teacher, an athletic coach, or your spouse? How many Christian households would allow their children to make promises and then repeatedly break those promises?

Does it signal that we, as a Christian community, aid and abet Satan, the father of lies? It is Lucifer who bamboozled one third of the angels to reject God and join his team. If angels, in the presence of God their creator, can be led astray, then how much more easily is man led astray?

We, as a Christian community, need to have the integrity to recognize and define ungodly behavior as such instead of rationalizing with common clichés:

• We have to choose the lesser of two evils.
• Make lemonade.    
• I don’t vote – I don't have a right to voice my opinion.
• Every vote counts.
• We get the government we deserve if we don't participate.

Don't be fooled, alternatives exist. Ungodly behavior, in any form, dishonors God.