What should influence us to make a good choice?

That is a very tricky question, especially now that we are in an election time for a leader, and that every candidate is looking to please enough people to have the majority of votes, or should I say it the other way around:  that the people are looking for the best candidate that can lead this nation.

It is hard to say because, according to what I have heard on the radio and on TV, people make choices due to different type of influences. Some go by the looks, others by the economic solvency, by the age, by the sex, by the influential people they know, by the personalities who back them up, by what they believe in, or say they believe in, by the way they act or talk; so many different reasons that might say or not how that candidate will behave in the future when elected, if it will still please the one who voted for him/her.

Should we listen to other people’s experiences?  As a victim of an evil system, I should say yes, but I know those evil systems fabricate their own “victims” to get into the people’s good will, in order to win. After all, they are themselves the “great” invention of the father of lies to destroy the good things that God created. So how can we make a good choice? I, myself was having doubts and felt bad about my indecision, because even though they are both qualified, there are other motivations, so I prayed about it because God is the only one who knows the heart and can reveal who would be best. I have had the experience that God hears my cry and solves my problem whatever it might be because God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. (Romans 8.28) And so I went to the wisdom source, the Holy Scriptures, and read about the experiences of Daniel who was a man who lived according to God’s will and learned of the many times God saved him from perishing by the hand of his enemies and even convinced them they were wrong. I also read that I should not give up in my good intentions and gave me a name.

If you have any uncertainty in your life, ask God. He’s the ONLY ONE who could really show you the best thing to do. We should not let any frivolous influence block our understanding, because it will. That is its purpose. We are not living a fiction where the fixed hero always wins, but a real world where the people of good will have the choice of making great history if led by God Almighty. And we, the ones who trust on Him will  overcome, whatever the situation, like the prophet Isaiah wrote: Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength: They will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired, they will walk and not become weary. (Isaiah 40.31)

The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.

(James 5.16c)