Would it Hurt to Elect Righteous Public Officials?

By Rev. Harold E. Bailey

President, Probation Challenge

CHICAGO, IL – It would be more than a mere gesture for citizens to elect a mayor or other public officials who were full of unadulterated love and filled with the righteousness of God.

It can be achieved!

For the public to eradicate the evils that have for decades poisoned the political waters by which we digest, we will have to wipe the slate all but clean. It’s possible to have a body of officials concerned with the needs of their constituents… which would bring about hard-working taxpayers having a bright future for their children and their children’s children! Would this not be the will of God for his people?

There are grossly misleading political candidates who rest with the insane inside party loyalists said to gather in dark corridors conspiring to convince blacks to retreat back into yesterday’s ignorance.  These deceiving spirits wearing bloody grins are with betraying hearts. They have become ‘sinfully comfortable’ in smoke-filled backrooms—trusting that African Americans and Hispanics will never live in an educational era of love, peace and tranquility!

Candidates falsely choosing to have a platform based on tender hearted love should first have need to have first-hand experience with the details of sure enough love!  The love of God that surpass all understanding!  When speaking of love, I speak not of love as lustfulness, but holiness that is with divine intervention—that has a keeping power to prohibit candidates from Satan’s power of persuasion. The love of God is patient and is kind. Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Each candidate should know, without doubt, that love does not dishonor others as presently displayed in the political arena. Love is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrong.

More assuredly, with God appointing and anointing his chosen vessel as mayor, or other elected positions of authority … God will anoint that individual for his glory, honor, and exclusively for his purpose.

Unequally, nothing passes the all-seeing-eye of God! And, knowing that God looks out after his word to see that it will not return back unto him void …  it becomes wise to seek and elect a God-fearing person who trembles at the word of God and hunger and thirst for his righteousness.

A voter might want to listen to that spiritually voice that dictates daily in our lives, and will not allow our feet error in his path of righteousness; for the steps of a good man or woman are ordered by the Lord.

Without a shadow of doubt, it is not harmful for voters to look beyond the human flesh of a candidate, for each candidate aspiring for that mayoral or governmental seat—all have human flaws that may never reach the eye or ears of a human.  However with a spiritual view we shall know them by the fruit they bear.

With crime as rampant as it is now and numerous taxpayers believing that drugs are all but permitted for the sake of revenue, courts, jails and prisons, it is important that we not hear the colorful deceptions that have flowed over the lips of persons who aspire for leadership, for many seek authority for greed and power.

God admonished in the scriptures: “Above all things the heart is desperately evil … who can know it but God?” We should remember that God knows the very intent of the heart—including a candidate’s.!

If we endeavor to pattern our lives after the historicalness of Christ, we might want to acknowledge that during the biblical days leaders were chosen from among the people, but they had to be known as men and women who were wise and full of the Holy Spirit … because important work was turned over to them.

Rev. Harold E. Bailey, president, Probation Challenge

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