Everybody wants to be President.
On the eve of last day of filing for the 2010 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has received 99 certificates of candidacy for president. Among them were a quantum physicist, a retired teacher, an insurance agent, some politicians, and many other characters ranging from genuine to Jokerish (and it’s the Heath Ledger-type!).
For many, it’s not easy to pinpoint who among those who run for office are sincere and who are just fooling around. But that’s secondary.
Supremely important is an electorate that is not fooling around with the leadership standard it upholds. More than ever before, Filipinos must be dead serious on not committing another mistake of bequeathing the reins of power to another two-faced megalomaniac who will treat the Philippines as his/her own moneymaking corporation.
After two EDSAs (and their corresponding triumphs and disappointments), we’re supposed to be wiser by now. But I’m afraid wisdom that depends on pure human information alone is frail. No matter how wisely we think we have voted, the Philippines would still head south if our concept of “voting wisely” precludes inquiring of God’s will.
God’s will is often sought on a personal level. “Who is God’s will for me to marry?” “What college course is God’s will for me to take?” “What career path is God’s will for me to tread?”
But we must realize that God also exercises His will on a national level (2 Chr 7:14). In the same manner that our cooperation is necessary for His will to be accomplished in our personal lives, there must also be collective national alignment to His purpose so that His will to snatch the Philippines from the quagmire it’s in would be accomplished.
Voting without regard for biblical standard of righteous (Pv 16:12) and just (1 Ki 10:9) leadership is to be trapped in the deception that the systemic corruption dragging the Philippines to hell is not a moral and spiritual issue as well.
It’s time we realize that our vote and God’s standards should be indivisible. Our national woes must be addressed on moral and spiritual levels, aside from practical ones. Practical solutions that do not bring about change to the human mindsets that run government institutions breed superficiality, insincerity, and, ultimately, temporality to the supposed transformation.
As we cast our votes in 2010, let them be decisions that are produced by serious inquiry of God’s will. Call it absurd. Call it unbelievable. But yes, seriously praying about who to vote for is a big step for change in the Philippines.
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