Article November 2, 1992 Issue

Making choices

The Christian Science Monitor

On November 3 many people in the United States, and perhaps elsewhere, will be voting, some of them for the first time. Often it is hard to decide who should get our vote, especially when all the candidates are similarly qualified.

In I Samuel, the Bible gives a wonderful illustration of how prayer can help us. There it recounts a time when God told Samuel, who was a prophet, that he should go to Bethlehem to anoint a new king. This king would be one of Jesse's eight sons. Samuel obediently went and asked Jesse to show him all his sons.

When Samuel looked at Eliab, he thought immediately that this one must be God's chosen. But God said, "Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

Loving our politicians