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Matthew chapter 22 verses 37 through 40 and Jesus said to him

you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

This is the great and first commandment.

And a second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two

commandments depend all the law and the prophets. As we pray during these 31 days leading up to presidential election in the United States,

these verses from Jesus mouth in Matthew 22 37 through 40,

maybe the most important verses we could read and pray according to because they inform everything.

Like as we think about voting.

I talk about the sum in the Before You Vote book, but we don't have command in the Bible to vote.

Mainly because Old Testament, New Testament times, God doesn't speak to democratic elections like we are experiencing in the 21st century.

But that doesn't mean that we think

think through how to steward our vote with love for God and with love for others as ourselves.

So how do we steward our vote to express love for God

and how do we steward our vote to express love for others.

I'm not saying that automatically makes it easy to know how to steward your vote or who to vote for,

but this is what drives us. This informs the way we vote, the way we do everything we do, and even

our perspective in the middle of an election to say, my devotion, my affection is definitely not to this or that candidate to this or that party

like my affection belongs supremely to God. And I want to love others as myself. I want to lay down my life in love

for others. Like when that is evident in our lives it totally changes our perspective on the country around us and

then is there not a greater need than these two verses to mark more and more and more of our hearts and more and more

people's hearts in our country like our greatest need is to be restored to God.

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