| 「政治比物理複雜多了。」 ──愛因斯坦 政治的確很複雜，在選舉期間尤為顯著。候選人的慷慨陳詞，耀眼的資歷、背景，在在考驗選民的智慧，要從中過濾，判斷真偽。 儘管選舉常予人眼花撩亂的感覺，但不可否認，選舉的結果事關重大，因為被選出來的代表可要做出許多影響民生至鉅的決定。我們生命中的很多事都是早已被深定好的，但，選舉制度總算讓我們自己來決定誰能代表我們。 ●多重選擇 不幸的是，有時候我們可能會和以下這位選民有同樣的心聲，他說：「很多次我都想投給『或許吧』。」不過，很抱歉，「或許吧」不能算是一個決定。我們必須藉著所有可能得到的資訊，決定一位最值得信賴的候選人。 也有人投另一種票──如果那也算是投票的話。他們的態度與厭惡政客的村夫村婦一致。「我才不去投什麼票，那不過助長政客的勢聲罷了！」但拒絕投票就像生病拒絕吃藥、溺水而不屏住呼吸一樣無補於事！總之，不論積極的參與或消極的排拒，你都做了一項決定。 ●最重要的決定 選舉的結果影響很大，但有一項決定比任何選舉，甚至比選舉總統還重要。 有一個人將永遠影響你的生命，你要對他採取什麼態度呢？這個人就是耶穌基督，而你必須決定接受還是拒絕祂作你的救主。請聽我解釋： 在做這項決定之前，你可以先考慮清楚所有的情況再投「接受」或「拒絕」。在你之前，已經有許許多多的人看清自己的本相，他們發現自己的殘缺，也瞭解以人的不完美無法取悅完全良善、公義的上帝。聖經早就指出了這個事實： 「世人都犯了罪，虧缺了神的榮耀。」（羅三：23） 聖經同時也告訴我們，上帝羞遣耶穌基督為我們生活中大大小小的罪付上了贖價： 「因基督也曾一次為罪受苦，就是義的代替不義的，為要引我們到神面前。」（彼前三：18） 最後，你必須決定要不要相信耶穌基督是你的「代罪羔羊」，接受祂白白賜給你「永遠的生命」為禮物；或者選擇拒絕祂，承受結果： 「信子的人有永生，不信子的人得不著永生，神的震怒常在他身上。」（約三：36） 當然，你可以忽略祂的救恩，或者「等以後再說吧」。但事實上，放棄也等於是拒絕了祂；雖是較不起眼的決定，但同樣有效力。至於會有什麼結果呢？聖經如此說： 「（上帝）要報應那不認識神，和那不聽從我主耶穌福音的人。他們要受刑罰，就是永遠沉淪，離開主的面。」（帖後一：8-9） ●別放棄投票！ 耶穌甘願為你犧牲生命，並從死裏復活戰勝了死亡。上帝的邀請簡單而清楚，不像愛因斯坦處理的物理問題般複雜；那就是：單單相信耶穌基督能赦免你的罪，並接受祂白白賜給你的永遠生命。 請用心接受耶穌作你的救主──就在今天！ 你可以這樣禱告：「親愛的耶穌，我相信你是上帝的兒子，你能赦免我的罪。求你現在進入我的心中，作我生命的主，奉耶穌的名，阿們。」（阿們的意思是誠心所願） “Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
Albert Einstein Politics can be complicated, especially during election years. Sorting through candidates’ claims and qualifications. Listening to all the election rhetoric. Trying to distinguish between fact and fantasy. But in spite of the political hoopla that elections generate, they provide an unmatched opportunity to choose those who make crucial decisions affecting almost every aspect of our lives. Many of life’s decisions are already made for us, but the vote gives us say-so about who we want our representatives to be. ●One Way Or Another Unfortunately, we may feel like one voter who said, “Many times I wished that I could vote ‘Maybe’.” Obviously, “maybe” isn’t a choice. We have to decide on the basis of all the available information, then vote for the person we think we can trust the most. But other people choose another way, although they may not think of it as choosing. They take the approach of the countrywoman who disliked politicians altogether. “I don’t vote,” she said. “It just encourages them.” But not casting a vote is like refusing to take pills when you are sick…or not holding your breath underwater! Either way, in positive action or doing nothing, you make a choice. ●Your Greatest Decision Voting is important, but there’s another decision you will make that has much greater consequences than electing even the President. There is someone who will eternally influence your life who is waiting to see what you will decide about Him. That person is Jesus Christ, and the decision is whether you will accept or reject Him as your Savior. Let me explain. You can take an active role in choosing or rejecting Christ, that is, you can consider all the evidence before deciding. Many others before you have taken a hard look at themselves and have seen that they are imperfect and incapable of pleasing a good and perfect God. In fact, that’s just what God’s Word, the Bible says: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) The Bible also says that God sent Jesus Christ as the payment, the satisfaction, for all the imperfection and sin in our lives: “Christ Died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” (1 Peter 3:18) Finally, you must decide whether to trust Christ as your substitute and receive eternal life as a free gift, or choose to reject Him and suffer the consequences: “Whoever believes in the Son [Christ] has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God’s wrath remains on him.” (John 3:36) Of course, you could ignore Christ or postpone any decision about His offer But in reality, you would have already made a choice to reject Him─a less obvious “decision,” but just as binding. And the consequences? The Bible declares, “[Christ] will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord.” (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9) ●Don’t Forget to Vote! Jesus willingly sacrificed Himself for you, died, and rose from the grave to defeat death. And you don’t have to be an Einstein to understand God’s simple and straightforward offer: trust in Christ alone for the forgiveness of your sin and receive His free gift of eternal life. By faith, choose Jesus Christ as your Savior--and choose Him today!
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