Excerpt from The Dawn: Unlike political candidates who see as their chief opponent other candidates running for the same office, we battle against the world, the flesh, and the Adversary. We have as our major task the keeping of God’s will in a position of ascendancy, and our old will dead. We are to mortify the deeds of the flesh by the power of God’s Holy Spirit. (Rom. 8:13) Paradoxically, one of the unique features of our running for this race is that we are assisted in making our “calling and election sure” by helping others toward this same goal! Political hopefuls, on the other hand, have little thought of assisting anyone other than themselves.