Elections have consumed a lot of our energy lately. Before we close the door on the 2024 election, it’s worth reflecting on the wisdom of our Founding Fathers and other remarkable Americans when it comes to voting.

I recently read a joke in which a surgeon, an engineer, and a politician were arguing over which of their professions was the oldest. The surgeon said, “Surely mine is.” Since God operated on Adam to produce Eve.

The engineer replied, “Yes, but before the creation of Adam and Eve, chaos had been brought into order. Bringing order to chaos is the job of the engineer.

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“Yes, but who created the chaos?” » asked the politician.

Shouldn’t Christians stay out of politics? This is what a lot of people seem to be advocating these days. And yet one man had the temerity to say this: “Providence has given our people the choice of their leader, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation, to select and to prefer Christians for its leaders. »

Oh my God. Who said that? Jerry Falwell? Alex Jones? Atilla the Hun? No, actually it was said by John Jay, first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by our first president, George Washington.

Again, it is the duty and privilege of Christians to prefer Christians as political leaders, according to our first Chief Justice. Wow. How far we have fallen. We live in a crisis today in which many Christians do not even bother to vote in modern America. Some aren’t even registered vote.

But Patrick Henry warned us: “It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. »

Well, they say in America we have the kind of government we deserve. Historically, Christians in America have applied their faith to virtually every area of ​​life, including politics.

Although not all of the Founding Fathers were Christians, the vast majority of them were, and more importantly, they had a biblical worldview. Our two key founding documents are the Declaration of Independence, which affirms that our rights come from God, and the Constitution, which explains how this government should operate. The founders believed in the biblical testimony that man is sinful. So they designed the division of power very carefully.

What has made America so special goes back to our Judeo-Christian foundation. But this fact has been forgotten by many Americans who now view the nation as a happy accident and who view Christians as interlopers in an otherwise happy secular state. Additionally, our history has been rewritten and God has been erased.

The great 19th-century Christian statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), senator from Massachusetts, declared“If religious books do not circulate widely among the masses in this country, I don’t know what we will become as a nation. If the truth is not broadcast, error will be.

Webster too declared: “If God and his Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt from one end of the country to the other, anarchy and misgovernance, degradation and misery, corruption and darkness will reign without abatement or end.

Nature abhors a vacuum. If we Christians are not involved in culture, including politics, then ungodly men and women will be. Abraham Lincoln said: “Our government is based on public opinion. Anyone who can change public opinion can change the government to some extent.”

He also noted that: a statement which I think of in light of the ACLU and other secularists who are trying to rob us of our freedoms and our rich Christian heritage: “A majority held back by constitutional controls and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes to popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.

Lincoln’s successor, the 17th president, Andrew Johnson, was the first president to be impeached; but he was saved from expulsion by a vote. Nevertheless, he recognized that our rights are God-given. Johnson said: “This is the people’s government; they received it as an inheritance from Heaven, and they must defend and preserve it.

Our 26th president was Theodore Roosevelt. He reminds we talk about the arduous task that government represents for “we the people”: “The noblest of all forms of government is self-government; but it is also the most difficult.

“We the people” must remember this WHO is in charge. Theoretically, politicians are our servants and not the other way around.

As Teddy Roosevelt formula “If people cannot govern themselves, then they are not fit for free government, and all talk of democracy is a sham.”