你有选择权The Choice is Yours
American Tract Society
「政治比物理复杂多了。」 ──爱因斯坦
政治的确很复杂，在选举期间尤为显著。候选人的慷慨陈词，耀眼的资历、背景，在在考验选民的智慧，要从中过滤，判断真伪。
尽管选举常予人眼花撩乱的感觉，但不可否认，选举的结果事关重大，因为被选出来的代表可要做出许多影响民生至巨的决定。我们生命中的很多事都是早已被深定好的，但，选举制度总算让我们自己来决定谁能代表我们。
●多重选择
不幸的是，有时候我们可能会和以下这位选民有同样的心声，他说：「很多次我都想投给『或许吧』。」不过，很抱歉，「或许吧」不能算是一个决定。我们必须借着所有可能得到的资讯，决定一位最值得信赖的候选人。
也有人投另一种票──如果那也算是投票的话。他们的态度与厌恶政客的村夫村妇一致。 「我才不去投什么票，那不过助长政客的势声罢了！」但拒绝投票就像生病拒绝吃药、溺水而不屏住呼吸一样无补于事！总之，不论积极的参与或消极的排拒，你都做了一项决定。
●最重要的决定
选举的结果影响很大，但有一项决定比任何选举，甚至比选举总统还重要。
有一个人将永远影响你的生命，你要对他采取什么态度呢？这个人就是耶稣基督，而你必须决定接受还是拒绝祂作你的救主。请听我解释：
在做这项决定之前，你可以先考虑清楚所有的情况再投「接受」或「拒绝」。在你之前，已经有许许多多的人看清自己的本相，他们发现自己的残缺，也了解以人的不完美无法取悦完全良善、公义的上帝。圣经早就指出了这个事实：
「世人都犯了罪，亏缺了神的荣耀。」（罗三：23）
圣经同时也告诉我们，上帝羞遣耶稣基督为我们生活中大大小小的罪付上了赎价：
「因基督也曾一次为罪受苦，就是义的代替不义的，为要引我们到神面前。」（彼前三：18）
最后，你必须决定要不要相信耶稣基督是你的「代罪羔羊」，接受祂白白赐给你「永远的生命」为礼物；或者选择拒绝祂，承受结果：
「信子的人有永生，不信子的人得不着永生，神的震怒常在他身上。」（约三：36）
当然，你可以忽略祂的救恩，或者「等以后再说吧」。但事实上，放弃也等于是拒绝了祂；虽是较不起眼的决定，但同样有效力。至于会有什么结果呢？圣经如此说：
「（上帝）要报应那不认识神，和那不听从我主耶稣福音的人。他们要受刑罚，就是永远沉沦，离开主的面。」（帖后一：8-9）
●别放弃投票！
耶稣甘愿为你牺牲生命，并从死里复活战胜了死亡。上帝的邀请简单而清楚，不像爱因斯坦处理的物理问题般复杂；那就是：单单相信耶稣基督能赦免你的罪，并接受祂白白赐给你的永远生命。
请用心接受耶稣作你的救主──就在今天！
你可以这样祷告：「亲爱的耶稣，我相信你是上帝的儿子，你能赦免我的罪。求你现在进入我的心中，作我生命的主，奉耶稣的名，阿们。」（阿们的意思是诚心所愿）
“Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
Albert Einstein
Politics can be complicated, especially during election years. Sorting through candidates' claims and qualifications. Listening to all the election rhetoric. Trying to distinguish between fact and fantasy.
But in spite of the political hoopla that elections generate, they provide an unmatched opportunity to choose those who make crucial decisions affecting almost every aspect of our lives. Many of life's decisions are already made for us, but the vote gives us say-so about who we want our representatives to be.
●One Way Or Another
Unfortunately, we may feel like one voter who said, “Many times I wished that I could vote 'Maybe'.” Obviously, “maybe” isn'ta choice. We have to decide on the basis of all the available information, then vote for the person we think we can trust the most.
But other people choose another way, although they may not think of it as choosing. They take the approach of the countrywoman who disliked politicians altogether. “I don't vote,” she said. “It just encourages them.” But not casting a vote is like refusing to take pills when you are sick…or not holding your breath underwater! Either way, in positive action or doing nothing, you make a choice.
●Your Greatest Decision
Voting is important, but there's another decision you will make that has much greater consequences than electing even the President.
There is someone who will eternally influence your life who is waiting to see what you will decide about Him. That person is Jesus Christ, and the decision is whether you will accept or reject Him as your Savior. Let me explain.
You can take an active role in choosing or rejecting Christ, that is, you can consider all the evidence before deciding. Many others before you have taken a hard look at themselves and have seen that they are imperfect and incapable of pleasing a good and perfect God. In fact, that's just what God's Word, the Bible says: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) The Bible also says that God sent Jesus Christ as the payment, the satisfaction , for all the imperfection and sin in our lives: “Christ Died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God.” (1 Peter 3:18)
Finally, you must decide whether to trust Christ as your substitute and receive eternal life as a free gift, or choose to reject Him and suffer the consequences: “Whoever believes in the Son [Christ] has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him.” (John 3:36)
Of course, you could ignore Christ or postpone any decision about His offer But in reality, you would have already made a choice to reject Him─a less obvious “decision,” but just as binding. And the consequences? The Bible declares, “ [Christ] will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord.” (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9)
●Don’t Forget to Vote!
Jesus willingly sacrificed Himself for you, died, and rose from the grave to defeat death. And you don't have to be an Einstein to understand God's simple and straightforward offer: trust in Christ alone for the forgiveness of your sin and receive His free gift of eternal life.
By faith, choose Jesus Christ as your Savior--and choose Him today!