Has anybody noticed that there is an election coming up on Tuesday? It is pretty much all you hear in the news and November 2nd is just around the corner. It will be an important day... whether you be a democrat, republican or other... and I believe everyone should vote... but let me ask you a question. One way or the other, will this election fix what is ailing us as a country?

I want you to imagine for a second that we elected all the right people to all the right offices... Congress, governor, school boards, city council... all the right people in all the right offices. And, they instituted all the right policies, all the right legislation. We got every proposition on every ballot exactly right.

Do you think that would usher in perfection into our society? Would the hearts of the fathers be turned towards their children? Would every marriage now be a model of faithfulness and love? Would greed and pride be legislated out of existence? Would our workplaces all become models of harmony, neighborhoods and schools places free of prejudice and full of servanthood? Would human beings now at last be able to master our impulses around sexuality and anger?

To get personal with you... if we got all the right people in all the right offices to enact all the right legislative policies, would you finally be the woman or the man that you know God called you to be?

Now, to be real clear, we ought to be engaged in the political process, we ought to be educated about it, we all ought to vote, we ought to be in prayer for it. That's a real good thing. And we should do it in a way that is civil and respectful because sometimes people in churches don't always do this.

I saw a cartoon one time.  A guy is standing at the pearly gates before Saint Peter and Peter says to him, "You were a believer, yes, but you skipped the not being a jerk about it part."  We should be involved in the process in a way that is respectful.

But, here's my point. No human system has the ability to change the human heart. T.S. Elliot wrote, and I think it is incredibly true... "The problem with the human race is we want a system of order so perfect we do not have to be good."