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Amen to that Chaplain. God is entirely sovereign in all circumstances. Ultimately, when someone takes office, even the evil, it suits God’s purpose and will. God’s will in matters of His sovereignty are not always clear to us. Maybe by these horrid conditions we see ourselves in, and faced with no viable choice that could be within the “revealed” will of God as found in Scripture. (I.E. I think voting for Romney is covered by Galatians 1:6-9) then it may Him attempting to draw us to repentance. This country is in need of a “Great Awakening” like that which occured in the years before the American Revolution. God send us some Jonathan Edwards and George Whitfields.

Of course, God does not provide us with the opportunity to vote and to not exercise it. A favorite preacher of mine, is Charles Haddon Spurgeon who was a famous English Baptist. On March 22, 1857 he preached a sermon titled “Particular Election.” In that sermon he touched briefly on secular elections as follows:

“When Mr. Whitefield was once applied to use his influence at a general election, he returned answer to his lordship
who requested him that he knew very little about general elections but that if his lordship took his advice he would make his own particular “calling and election sure,” which was a very proper remark. I would not, however, say to any persons here present, despise the privilege which you have as citizens. Far be it from me to do it! When we become Christians, we do not leave off being Englishmen! When we become professors of religion, we do not cease to have the rights and privileges which citizenship has bestowed on us. Let us, whenever we shall have the opportunity of using the right of voting, use it as in the sight of Almighty God, knowing that for everything, we shall be brought into account and for that among the rest, seeing that we are entrusted with it. And let us remember that we are our own governors, to a great degree, and that if at the next election we should choose wrong governors, we shall have nobody to blame but ourselves,however wrongly they may afterwards act, unless we exercise all prudence and prayer to Almighty God to direct our hearts to a right choice in this matter. May God so help us and may the result be for His Glory, however unexpected that result may be to any of us!”