To Vote or Vote Not
The upcoming election is on my mind. I don't know if I should participate or not. I vacillate between thinking I should be an activist and campaign and vote to thinking I ought to be a revolutionary who works for the destruction of the Empire. I have a third place I often land and that is the peace place. The place where I know that God is in control of things, where I know that God commands us to love and not hate. That place where the Man Jesus says
"Do not resist the one who is evil." When I'm honest with myself I know for certain that Jesus taught non-resistance as a way of life. I also know that the early church, for the first nearly 300 years, was a pacifist church. There is a very good case to be made for refusing to participate in an organization that is nothing but brute force when you peel away the pretty coverings. It is one of the few things I think the Jehovah's witnesses get right actually. I have my ballot on the dining room table, along with all of the documents that go with it. The thing is I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. In fact the case can be made that
Voting is Evil!
Yet, for all that, I still might vote. I guess that just proves I'm still
a poor miserable sinner.
In the end I think the answer to my question of to vote or vote not will be not. Or maybe it will be vote... I'm still thinking and praying about it. That really is the key I suppose, before you vote (or abstain) pray to God for guidance, and listen for that small still voice, and obey.