As a Christian and an American citizen, we owe God and our fellow-citizens to be faithful to vote. Jesus said, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”(Matthew 22:39)
Since we have a representative form of government, one way we show love and mercy to our fellow citizens is by righteous voting; conversely, treating lightly our privilege and responsibility to vote is not loving our neighbor because by not voting, you voted the “I don’t care” ballot.
Righteous voting chooses a candidate based upon his position concerning the non-negotiables. For example, the candidate’s position on the sanctity of life, marriage, family and moral consonance with explicit scriptural teaching trumps any issues of a secondary nature or what he promises to give to those who vote for him.
Voting for a candidate simply because of what he says he will do for you, while he supports babies being exterminated at the rate of approximately 4000 per day through abortion is akin to supporting Hitler because he promised to improve the economy–never mind his fetish with race purification.
To vote is a stewardship, to vote and win is exciting, to vote and lose is a clear conscience, to not vote and complain is hypocrisy and sin. “Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.”(James 4:17)
Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said, “We are now called upon to exercise one of the privileges and duties which go with liberty, let no man be neglectful in it. Every God fearing man should give his vote with as much devotion as he prays.” ((Lewis A. Drummond, Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1992), 521.))
