WACKY WEDNESDAY WISDOM: Can't We All Just Get Along?

      Please, if you're reading this, keep reading. Most people skim the first line or two of a post and move along. But I want you to see this. A friend sent me a quote and a verse a day or two before the 2020 election and it deserves to be read. I'm writing this the day after the election but before the outcome has been determined. Therefore I have no political angle. But I do have a spiritual angle. And that angle is this: Can't we all just get along? 

     Back in 1774, John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, said this about elections: 

1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.”

Matthew 5 reminds Christians to be salt and light to the world around them when it says: "You are the salt of the earth . . . You are the light of the world . . . let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in Heaven."

Whether your candidates got elected or not is not the main issue. The main issue is whether we as Christians will be salt and light when we get our way as well as when we don't. If we gloat when our candidates win instead of reaching out to understand the opposing view, we are of the world and not simply in it. And we are called to be above the selfish desires and enticements of this world. We are called to be of a higher world, God's Kingdom. We are called to be salt and light, not bitter when we lose or arrogant when we win.

No one party or candidate has cornered the market on God. Who you vote for is your business. I don't care, I love you anyway. I love you because God first loved me. Can't we all just get along?