Our Calling and Election

 

Election is the buzzword

It’s on the tongues of most

Many are on the campaign trail

In the town, the country, on the coast

Some are traditional diehards

Re: the Adams and Barrow age

But many are still undecided

Even at this late stage

Some hold that the major parties

Basically are the same

The names and faces are changed

But the same governance again

All politicians are the same

More than a few hold to this

Who they hate they habitually kick

And who they like they kiss

This apart that group maintains

Politicians are basically selfish

And for the purpose of feathering their beds

They promise what you wish

But another election I’ll mention

And of that you can be sure

It’s the election of all elections

After that there will be no more

As politicians vie for your vote

Two are vying for your soul

One is bent on its destruction

The other on making you whole

Based on who gets your vote

Will be the matter of life or death

Death in terms of a flaming hell

Life in entering the Father’s rest

Some will find this trivial

Or rather quite amusing

But in this life you must cast your vote

There’s absolutely no refusing

  

In the civil kind of elections

One is not forced to vote

But in this spiritual election

Your choice strikes an eternal note

In 2Peter chapter 1 verse 10

The Apostle gives a clarion call

To make our calling and election sure

And we shall never fall

Not for five years or there about

But in an everlasting kingdom

Not for a human imperfect leader

But under Jesus Christ, God’s Son

I reiterate I really must

All that lived have already voted

And in fact all alive also have

And this should be readily noted

At birth there is a default

And thus all are born in sin

And unless one chooses Jesus Christ

That one will die therein

Thus it behooves us one and all

To make our calling and election sure

For this you must vote before you die

For after, the opportunity is no more

As you think on this May election

Consider too your current status

You are dead in trespasses and sin

If you have not voted in Jesus

A vote for Christ is a vote for life

Not for just now but forever

He alone makes that election sure

And believe you me there’s no other

Stewart Russell © April 2018