August 22, 2016 @ 11:00 AM
I'm so heartbroken over evangelicals repeated prostituting of themselves to politicians that I can say, as the Prophet Jeremiah did over the spiritual adultery and treachery of God's people in his day, "Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night" (Jeremiah 9:1-2). The church in American has so cheapened itself by prostituting itself to self-serving politicians for so cheap a price as a presumed lesser evil that it is now held in widespread disdain. Yet, it's diminished esteem is no one's fault but its own, since it has been willing to play the harlot over and over again in its vain attempts to promote presumed lesser evils over presumed greater evils.
It apparently doesn't matter to today's evangelicals that there is no way any evil, whether presumed to be lesser or greater, can make our country right with God or restore us to God's favor. Instead, evangelicals are so sickened by the presumed greater evil―a Hillary Clinton presidency―that they are willing to swallow the presumed lesser evil―a Donald Trump presidency. That both Clinton and Trump falsely profess to believe in Christ is obvious. Neither of them display the most elementary understanding of the knowledge of salvation. Neither is the remotest trace of any fruits of repentance or fruits of righteousness to be found in their lives, as proof that either of them has ever had a life transforming personal encounter with Jesus Christ.
Oh, I know, we're not electing a pastor, but a president. I know there are no perfect political candidates. I know that not voting for Trump is as good as a vote for Hillary. I know that not voting for one of two evils is perceived as unpatriotic, as well as failing to do anything to help our country in this critical hour. Yada yada yada! If I've heard these arguments once, I've heard them a thousand times. Yet, there is one glaring thing that continuously eludes all evangelicals who continue to make these arguments. It is that both Clinton and Trump publicly claim to be Christians. Therefore, evangelicals going to the polls for either one of them serves, whether we intend for it to or not, as a rubber stamp of approval in the eyes of the public on both of their false Christian professions. As a result, the Gospel of Jesus Christ ends up compromised in our country, thanks to our fellow-countrymen's belief that the divine standard for salvation is as low as the professed beliefs and public behavior of Hillary Clintons and Donald Trumps. In addition, insult is added to injury when you consider the fact that our country is not helped in the least by evangelicals helping to elect a hypocrite for our president who can no more be trusted to keep his or her campaign promises than they can be to practice the Christian faith they falsely profess.
Our Lord once said, "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it" (Mark 8:25). The all important question for Christians in our country today is: "What are you willing to lose for the sake of Christ and the Gospel?" How about your country, are you willing to lose it for Christ's sake and the Gospel's? It looks to me like a lot of Christians in America today draw the line when it comes to our country. They are so desperate to save our country that they are willing to do anything, even compromise their Christian faith and the truth of the Gospel. I, on the other hand, join with the famous Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn in saying: "The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. The lie may take the world, but not through me." For Christ's sake and the sake of the Gospel I'm willing to lose everything, including my country, which is destined, like all other countries in history, as well as in the world today, for the ash heap of eternity anyway. In the final analysis, it is only the truth of Christ that is worth living and dying for. Do you agree?