With it being an election year, we are bombarded with new faces in the political arena.  We hear each one say how great they are and why they should be our next president, and in the next breath they are speaking negatively about the other candidates.  How are we to know what to believe?  We can’t possible have a personal relationship with all these men.  In fact, most of us don’t have a relationship with even one of these candidates.  Yet, they want us to entrust the future of our nation and world to them.

    We probably know many things about each candidate, like where they live, family members, education, past experiece, voting records and favorite food.  We might research them and learn more personal things like, how long they’ve been married or what is thei shoe size.

    I know many things about President Abraham Lincoln, but I couldn’t have known him personally.  There is a vast difference between knowing about someone and actually knowing them.  The same is true with Jesus.  We can know all about Him, tell all the parables He used, recite chapters of the Bible, and speak a fluent Christianise, but  do we know Him?

   Without a personal relationship with Jesus, we cannot hope to go to Heaven.  We must invite Him into our hearts in order to be saved.  There is no other way. (John 3:3)  Jesus is not a politician and He always speaks the truth.  For that reason, we can trust him with our lives.

    Not so with our presidential candidates.  They can tell the media pretty much what they want to and most of America has no way to prove or disprove the truth of the matter.  It can be especially hard to believe one man when the others are saying just the opposite.  How do we know who to trust?

  This is an area where we must trust Jesus to speak to us in that still small voice in our hearts.  He alone can guide us to the truth about a candadates motives and honesty.  So, don’t forget to pray before you vote.