No one on Tuesday’s ballot has walked on water

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following column is adapted from communion thoughts that Jeremie Beller offered Sunday at the Wilshire Church of Christ in Oklahoma City.

OKLAHOMA CITY — For millions of people around us — and let’s be honest, even some of us — there is an unhealthy degree of anxiety about Tuesday’s election.

According to pundits, politicians and far too many Christians, the hope of the world, humanity and Christianity all comes down to whoever gets the support of the most voters — many of whom do not even know God.

It would be disingenuous of me to pretend I am not anxious myself. I certainly have my preference for how I would like things to turn out.

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But let’s be honest: Does anyone really believe that the God who created all things by the sound of his voice — who delivered his people from the slavery of Egypt, parted the Red Sea, defeated giants with shepherd boys, fed thousands from a little lunch box, healed the blind, cured every sort of disease and raised his son from the dead — is in any way constrained by the will of any people?

Lest any of us forget, no one on any ballot has ever calmed a single storm. No one on any ballot has once walked on water. They have never cast out demons. They have never cured a single case of leprosy, blindness, or epilepsy. None of them has ever shouted the name of the dead, raising them back to life.

But we know who has.

And if you give anyone your vote, do not, for the sake of Christ, give them your loyalty or your faith.