I stumbled across across the following pondering I wrote right after the 2016 election. It seems appropriate and applicable going into the final stretch of the 2020 election.
November 10, 2016: today my heart is churning and my mind is going a million different directions. Throughout the entire election campaign I was never once able to pray for a specific candidate to win. I felt like every time I tried to pray for a specific candidate to win I could only pray for our nation at a spiritual level. I could only pray for individuals, for the people, for our nation as a whole.
The morning of the election as I was leaving my house to go to work I was thinking about the situation. I was crying out to God for some type of clarity because it all seems so confusing. Then, as I was lifting my heart to God He made it so clear through the eyes of my soul as I heard the scripture verse echoing in the hidden chambers of my heart, “if my people who are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their Wicked Ways then will they hear from me and I will hear them and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Wait! It says, “My people who are called by my name.” That’s all God is asking. He’s not asking for everybody in the world. He’s not asking for a certain percentage of the world’s population. All God is asking is that His people who are called by His name; those who are creating God’s reputation here on earth take action. If God’s people who are called by His name shall humble themselves and pray, and seek His face, then He will heal their land.
It has nothing to do with a candidate. It has everything to do with their own personal spiritual posture.
Now the election is over. And I realize more than ever that two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because one person is wrong that doesn’t make the other person any less wrong.
Every single individual who calls themselves a Christian and voted for the winning candidate has the onus and sobering responsibility to “humble themselves”, to start living humbly and seek His face. THEN, and only then, will you hear from heaven, abd then God will heal our land.
And so it is still the same today. We can squabble and disagree on our choices of presidential questions candidates, but the real vote we make is how we chose to humble ourselves and pray. And when we do that we are rewarded with a full life. We are enabled to live life, love, laugh, and forgive.
Beautiful In Time 