Tuesday, March 19, 2024
“Vote!”
Today’s Lenten Challenge is to Vote, assuming of course, that you live in a state or location that is hosting elections today. If you’ve already voted for a public office in 2024, or if you’ve already completed an absentee ballot for this election cycle, you’re done! You only need to read the rest of this short article.
If, however, you haven’t voted for public office yet in 2024, the Challenge is to do it today or at least make arrangements so that you are able to cast a ballot this year. Yes, this means that if you promise yourself that you’re going to vote in the Presidential Elections in 2024, you can check this Challenge off your list as well. If you happen to be under the age of 18 and unable to vote, you simply need to make sure the adults in your household are registered and cast their ballots sometime in the 2024 elections.
Yeah, yeah, this Challenge is simple. This assumes that everyone is using the honor system to fulfill their promise. All jokes aside, this Challenge may be the most important act we complete this entire year. Our right to vote is such a wonderful blessing that, sometimes, we take it for granted. At times, we move through life without giving a second thought to the blessings we receive, especially those blessings received BECAUSE we have been given the right to vote.
If you are of legal voting age and still need to register to vote, please register soon. If you are not planning to vote this year, please consider changing your mind. Regardless of your personal opinion of the candidates or the election process, each vote and each opinion is valid, especially yours. Your right to vote and your value as a human being is important to everyone, especially the LORD.
The LORD has given us life and has blessed us with the gift of free will. We can make our own choices and we can determine for ourselves how to best serve GOD. Our right to vote may not always seem like a gift from the LORD, but it is. God has worked through the lives of millions of people who made incredible sacrifices to provide us with this opportunity. Let’s make sure to exercise our rights, and in the process, say a prayer of Thanksgiving to the LORD for blessing us.
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” (Philippians 2:4, NIV)
