Tomorrow is election day, and even though something like 45% of the voting population have already cast ballots, I’m waiting until tomorrow to do my civic duty. Thus, it’s on my mind. Maybe it’s on yours too. If so, here’s my thought…
Let us be careful never to deify human beings. Let us be careful never to favor a person so much that we blind ourselves to their faults and flaws. Politically, you see this with Republicans never uttering a bad word about Ronald Reagan. You see it with Democrats never speaking ill of FDR. The fact is, all of us are flawed people and all of us make mistakes. When we deify people and refuse to take an honest look at who they are and what they did (or failed to do), we set ourselves up to repeat their mistakes.
Speaking as a parent, I would never want my children to hold me in such a high regard that they see my faults as virtues or make excuses for my errors. If they do that, then they will surely make my faults their own. We need to be mature enough to critically evaluate people, to see their successes, and admit their failures. That’s the only way we can improve and better ourselves as a society. To say the least, I am looking forward to the end of another election season, if for no other reason than this: I won’t have to listen to x-supporters of y-candidate making z-excuses for whatever idiotic thing was said or done recently.
There is one God. There is only one flawless, mistake-free Being who is owed our total, unwavering support. Give your vote to whomever your Biblically-trained conscience compels you to vote for, but at the end of the day, it’s just a vote. Give your vote to whomever…but give your life to the Lord.
~Matthew