What Would Jesus Do (To help me vote wisely)?

he most relevant election to me is my own.

Out of all the people created by God who have ever lived or will yet be born, God chose me to be among the divinely “elected” who will spend eternity with Him.

He based this election on my attribute: I was a sinner who can do absolutely nothing to ever deserve being in his holy presence. I lacked the only qualification He is looking for: perfect righteousness. That’s a qualification I can never earn, no matter what I do. That’s why God HAD to elect me.

Only God is perfectly righteous.

Because He is God, nothing is impossible for Him. He can do anything He wants to do—including transfer His own righteousness to me, by His grace alone.

There is one thing God cannot do.

God cannot contradict Himself. He cannot do anything that would deny His Godhood. If He says evil cannot stand in His presence, that’s exactly what He meant. For Him (holy) and me (evil) to even be in the same room, I have to be like Him.

He cannot make me God too. But He can make me God-compatible by separating me from my sinfulness. Unfortunately, that separation process is lethal. I will die during that process. Unless Someone dies in my place—which God is willing to do. But God cannot die for me unless He is like me. Only humans can die. God cannot.

Therefore God temporarily assumed human-ness as Jesus. Since Jesus is as big as God, being God Himself, He can die not just for me but for ALL of humanity combined.

His mission on earth accomplished, Jesus is back on His throne for PART TWO of The Plan. After Jesus atoned for my sin, I was no longer evil. But I was still NOT righteous enough for God, either. Evidence is the fact that I still had the ability to disobey.

God now has to ascribe righteousness to me, and that’s a much slower process than death. He has to TRAIN me in this new righteousness, a process called sanctification. It happens after atonement and lasts a lifetime.

For the remainder of my life, God will give me instructions—very subtle proddings, really--through His Holy Spirit, on how to make righteous choices time after time.

On clearcut choices, sometimes it’s easy. Other times, it gets really borderline iffy and I screw up a lot. It’s a good thing God has infinite patience. He keeps reminding me that for every wrong choice I make I alone, mostly, suffer the consequence. Sparing me the consequences of an immoral choice wasn’t part of the deal. Just don’t make immoral choices, that’s all.

And THAT is what informs my decision to vote for Leni. She stands unabashedly pro-morality—she doesn’t justify corruption. Standing up for righteousness is something that is pleasing to God. It’s the very same thing His Holy Spirit instructs me to do. Choosing Leni is the moral choice, which I don’t have to defend. I just have to do it and be happy that this is one of those times when it’s so easy to obey God.*