Elections are Over...Now of Things Eternal

Aggg! I get so frustrated with people around election time. First, it’s the candidates with all their political babble and mudslinging…then you must wrestle the apathetic attitude of voters. Still in my frustration, my message is we need to engage in the process…we need to do our homework and cast our votes. It’s not a perfect system, but it is our system. It’s the system that so many have died for over the years and others still want to topple today. Don’t like it here? Move to North Korea and see how you like their process! I do not consider myself a patriot, but I do think the greatest threat to this great nation is from within: an apathetic populace guarding their own interests. Perhaps my greatest frustration is the lack of participation by voters in the process. With national voter turnout for presidential elections dropping from 63% in 1960 (isn’t that low enough for a presidential election?) to just under 54% in 2008, yesterday’s turnout in Lawrence County was under 50%. Can people be that disinterested in politics? Perhaps we’ve just become lazy. Regardless, my observation is that we treat God with the same (if not greater) apathy. We are not a Christian nation, but have religiously become a society who are concerned only with “me.” We have so twisted God's word that the “church of what’s best for me” has become a national institution with members sitting in nearly every home and church across the land. Unfortunately, that church lacks the one thing many are looking for and all need: a Savior! Acts 4:11-12 is very clear…me can’t save me!