The rule of majority can produce good fruit in some cases such as standing up against cruelty and injustice inflicted on the voiceless. In free nations, it is the vote of majority that places people in governmental positions and allows them to pass various laws. The democratic process allows the voice of majority to win and move things in a certain direction.
This process only works well so long as citizens are seeking God’s wisdom and principles for sound laws and rulership. If people don’t care about God’s rules or they try to bring their own personal agenda, the rule of majority can take us to some dangerous places over time!
The Bible shows us that in every case when people placed a higher priority on the opinion of majority instead of seeking God’s will first, they went the wrong way!
Follow the “one” with faith
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.” Numbers 13:30-33
God promised the Land of Canaan to Israelites. However, the spies came back with a bad report. The ten spies saw themselves as grasshoppers before the Canaanites because they were focused on themselves and how small they were! Joshua and Caleb, on the other hand, saw the same thing as the other ten spies did, but their perspective was full of faith. They believed God for His great deliverance! The unbelief of ten overshadowed the belief of two and led them to death in the wilderness!
Unfortunately, the voice of majority can be convincing and look very real! It is easier to give in to the fear of multitudes than believe the few who are walking in faith.
We will also be challenged by many who will speak from positions of fear and insecurity and will tempt us to be fearful and insecure. Are we willing to believe God and stand up for what He says despite of the number of people who have unbelief?
It is better to follow one person who has faith rather than following a crowd that operates in unbelief! One person with God always is in the majority!
I will continue with this subject in the next devotional!