We are in the thick of a political campaign—you have seen yard signs sprouting everywhere like they were mushrooms, and those who do not know God are evidencing their faith in democracy. But we have faith in Jesus, not democracy. We believe in Jesus, not the Republicans and not the Democrats.
C.S. Lewis once said there were two basic views about democracy. One of the faith of the humanist, the one who believes that every person’s opinion is so valuable that we must make every effort to seek it out. The other position says that man is so unreliable and corruptible, we must take care to spread the power as thinly as possible, and that means extending it to everyone. As Christians, we may only engage in the democratic process in this latter way. We are provisional democrats only—at heart we are monarchists, and Christ is the only king.
So politics is not our savior. You may be involved in the political process, but only if that is not where your heart is. If you heart is there, then your treasure is stored up in a ballot box, where thieves break in and steal. As you are involved in this, your only goal should be to have God see what you are doing, and to honor it. You should not care what the magistrates of Vanity Fair think. When God has done His work through us, over centuries, we can rename the town we live in. In the meantime, do not trust in man, do not vote for anyone who embraces the twin iniquities of abortion and legitimized sodomy, do not justify means because of a noble end, and do not despair.