Ok, the presidential debates are over. But the mud-slinging is still two weeks from over.  You're tired and exhausted of the negative ads --be glad you don't live in Ohio! 

It probably won't make you feel any better to know that way back in 1828, the people supporting President John Quincy Adams circulated pamphlets accusing Andrew Jackson's wife of being an adulteress and his mother of being a prostitute!

One thing we can rejoice in is--we actually do get to vote!  In some nations, people live their whole lives and never get to vote once.  Something else quite amazing, your single vote is equal to the vote of anyone else in the nation. 

 As Christians, the ballot box is yet another way to live and exercise Christlikeness and biblical principles.

But we don't have to wait for November 6 to live in a Christian way in regard to the election

In 1774 John Wesley gave this wise advice:  

"I met those of our society who have votes in the election and advised them 

1.) to vote without fee or reward for the person they judged most worthy;

2.) to speak no evil of the person they voted against; 

3.) To take care that their spirits were not sharpened against those who voted on the other side. "

Good Advice!