What I Always Do When Wrestling with Complex Issues

This is what I always do when wrestling with complex issues, particularly in an election year when I am called to vote.

What I Always Do When Wrestling with Complex Issues

Last night I watched the debate, and so many complex issues were on the discussion docket.

Since 1996, which was the first year I was eligible to vote in the presidential election, I have wrestled with complex issues by putting them through the exact same template.

The template I use is Genesis 1 and 2. The reason I use it is because that was the time before sin and evil entered the world. God’s original plan and design was fully intact. It’s also a preview of how life will be restored to us in the new heaven and new earth, as described in Revelation 21 and 22.

This simple yet incredibly profound template makes issues easier for me to understand. When I think deeply, carefully, and thoughtfully about God’s design for the family, government, nature, and development as described in these two chapters, it gives me clarity on how I should vote.

As I stated in my recent post, Two Important Reasons to Vote This Year, we will all have to stand before God regarding our voting choices. This is especially true for Bible-believing Christians. I want to stand before God’s judgment throne someday and tell him that I tried my best to filter my voting decisions through His Word first rather than my own feelings and preferences.

How You Can Wrestle with Complex Issues Using Genesis 1 and 2

I encourage you in these 33 days remaining before the election to read Genesis 1 and 2 at a slow pace and regular frequency. As you approach these holy, inerrant, and infallible scriptures, you can pray directly to the Holy Spirit. Ask him to enlighten you to the unchanging truths He will show you in God’s Word – it’s one of his main jobs. Look at Genesis 1 and 2 through God’s eyes, not your own. Submit to his guidance, sovereignty, and beautiful design for how he created the world to be.

Two excellent books that are giving me incredible insight into Genesis 1 and 2 right now are “The Garden Within” and “When Your World Ends.” They can be extra credit reading for you. Yet I encourage you to first encounter the actual Scripture yourself and immerse yourself in its truth before you vote this year.

God might change you through this process. Don’t resist him, but welcome his loving correction and guidance.

I welcome your respectful comments below.

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