I don’t think there is much more to say about this election or your civic duty to act. Throughout the Bible, there are many examples where God’s people, as a nation, had bad leaders and suffered much as the consequence. There were times when there were good leaders and the people prospered.

There seems to be this individualistic, self-centered gospel that is being preached that your relationship with YHVH is the only thing that matters and the rest of what is going on really is of no import. Certainly your relationship with God through the Messiah is the most important one of your life, but as life is complex, so is God. It is not an either/or kind of thing. Your actions have impact. They will have great impact today.

Only a loving god would choose to act through His people as does God. Ever notice how you can pray and pray about something, but when you act in accordance with that prayer, it becomes answered before your eyes? Ever notice how our Father in heaven sees and knows our needs and supplies them?

There is no place in the Bible that says “God helps those who help themselves.” But there are many examples where God works through men and women who take that first step of faith. Hebrews Chapter 11 is full of examples. Name after name is mentioned from Abraham through David–all had faith; all took some action. Philippians 4:13, “I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.”

I have heard all the arguments about why we as Christians should not vote. You do what you will. But I know this in my heart of hearts—this is my very personal opinion—we do not have ideal candidates from a Christian world view. Nonetheless, we do have a clear distinction.

Yes, I know all the globalist underpinnings of both, and recognize them for what they are. Here’s the thing: God will choose the leader. He will work through each of us to do so. He knows our hearts. He knows what we deserve. He is merciful beyond measure. Yes, evil is evil. There is the type of evil that cannot be redeemed; and there is evil that can be redeemed. We have seen the heart of the former. We have not, the latter.

It has got to start somewhere. We as a nation, as a people, are on a downward spiral. As Christians, we are the light of the world, the salt of the earth. As Jesus said in Matthew 5:13: “…but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

God said in Ezekiel 22:30, “And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none.” I know that there are going to be a lot of Christians writing me today justifying their action or inaction or chastising me for encouraging political action. Fine. I will stand before the LORD for my actions. So will you. Go do the right thing.

Have a blessed and powerful day!
Bill Wilson
www.dailyjot.com

Throughout the last presidential debate, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton invoked her 30 year body of work on behalf of children around the world. Whenever Republican candidate Donald Trump pressed Clinton on her leadership, she invoked working on behalf of children.

When questions came up about her wanting to undermine the Second Amendment, Clinton said, “…unfortunately, dozens of toddlers injure themselves, even kill people with guns, because, unfortunately, not everyone who has loaded guns in their homes takes appropriate precautions.”

She talked against deporting illegal immigrants because it would harm their children. She deflected attacks on her experience saying she worked for kids.

Clinton said:

You know, back in the 1970s, I worked for the Children’s Defense Fund. And I was taking on discrimination against African-American kids in schools… In the 1980s, I was working to reform schools in Arkansas… In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women’s rights are human rights…

So I’m happy to compare my 30 years of experience, what I’ve done for this county, trying to help in every way I could, especially kids and families get ahead and stay ahead… and I’ll let the American people make that decision.

Trouble is, at the same time over that 30 year-plus period, Clinton was working to encourage aborting babies and supporting abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

Debate moderator Chris Wallace said, “I want to explore how far you believe the right to abortion goes. You have been quoted as saying that the fetus has no constitutional rights. You also voted against a ban on late-term, partial birth abortions. Why?”

Clinton responded that the life and health of the mother is paramount, that a late term abortion is up to the mother, “And I will stand up for that right.” The Centers for Disease Control states that 1.3% of abortions are late-term, translating to some 15,000 babies executed just prior to leaving the birth canal.

The Guttmacher Institute, which studied who gets late term abortions, reports, “most women seeking later terminations are not doing so for reasons of fetal anomaly or life endangerment.”

Republican candidate Donald Trump pointed out that Clinton’s immigration policy brings with it drugs and crime that even people in New Hampshire say is destroying their youth. He said there were mothers in the audience whose children were killed by illegal immigrants.

In addition, Clinton supports the outright murder of some 15,000 children being killed in the birth canal as they are being born. She also took over $20 million from Saudi Arabia, which boasts of discrimination, violence and slavery against women and children.

How can she say she works on behalf of children around the world and, at the same time, advocate policies that result in child brutality?

Jesus said in Luke 17:2, “It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.”

Have a blessed and powerful day!
Bill Wilson
www.dailyjot.com