Follow Me

One of the frustrating things about election time is the amount of political signs that take up just about every corner at our intersections. As you drive around Columbia, it’s hard for these signs that promote a particular candidate to go unnoticed. By the time the election is over, people are so sick of being inundated, not only by these signs but also by the ads on television. These candidates pull out all the stops to make people familiar with their campaigns. They are looking for people to follow them.

Did you know there’s someone who is constantly keeping his agenda before us in hopes that we’ll follow him? He is Satan. He’ll use any means necessary to get us to “vote” for him. He is very active in his efforts to affect us. Peter says “…Your adversary, the devil, prowls about like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour” (1 Pet. 5:8). He uses deception in his efforts to trick us. John records that Satan is the one “…who deceives the whole world…” (Rev. 12:9). The apostle Paul even said that “…Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Cor. 11:14).

Even though the election is almost over and these signs will eventually go away, don’t be unaware of the schemes of Satan to influence you each and every day. He doesn’t go away like the election. Even as it is recorded in his temptations of Jesus, “…he departed from Him until an opportune time” (Lk. 4:15). The old saying that we vote with our feet means that our actions speak for us. We show by our actions whether or not Satan is convincing us that we need to follow him. We are God’s elect, and it is time we make our choice. As Joshua said in speaking to the Israelites:

And if it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (Josh. 24:15)