Actually, I think you should vote if your conscience tells you to. I think we are learning righteousness and no one should try to push us or force us past where we are and past what we are ready to bear and able to hear.
I think Mary and Martha have to leave space for each other, even if they dont understand each other. I think when we read something, we have to try to ascertain if we are hearing a Mary or a Martha.
I also dont think a Mary can try try to force a Martha into being a Mary, although Jesus said Mary had chosen the better thing, so a Martha needs to try to leave room for a Mary who has chosen the better thing.
Martha was worried about many things, temporally speaking, as Jesus said. Mary wasn't. So Martha worked in her own flustered power to get things done and got upset at Mary for not helping with that. Jesus didnt say Martha was doing evil, He just said Mary had chosen the better thing. Martha wanted to take Mary away from the better thing to focus on what Martha chose to do.
Righteous Martha's do things in their own power and focus on what they can do. Jesus didnt condemn them. Mary's focus was on God and what He can do in His power. Jesus said they have chosen the better part.
Mary's should be thankful for Martha's and Martha's should leave Mary's be, because God works miracles through them if they begin walking in the Spirit.
Mary's and Martha's should not try to silence each other and Martha's should not try to make Mary's feel guilty for having chosen the better part.
Should Mary's just be totally silent or should they speak freely since Martha's can become Marys if they seek after Gods power and stop depending on their own?
Epi is a Mary. Most of us are Martha's. Often Mary's just look selfish and crazy to Marthas and Martha's scold them.
I dont know if I have made any sense to you...
Jesus used this story to point out the importance of spending time with Him, before we take action, in order to know what our action should be, right? We are doing what Jesus is doing
Mary had chosen, at that moment in time, to sit at Jesus' feet, to learn from Him, to spend time with Him, Jesus encouraged this, we see it as an example of waiting upon the Lord. Yet, Jesus did not intend for Mary to continue sitting and nothing else. This was a moment in time for Mary.
In order to live godly, holy, righteous and balanced lives before the Lord, we need to, at times, be a Mary and at other times a Martha. We are participating with God to further His Kingdom. God has works for each one of us to do, who are we to say one of these works is more important than another work? If someone is called into politics, then who are we to say they are disobeying? It's not our job to figure out who is called where. We really have no idea what God's plan is for that person. If this person is a believer, he will know it's not about the world's government but about God's Kingdom.
Not advocating jumping into politics or worldly affairs - ha - but there are so many other things God has said to do in His Word, if we're doing those, will there be time to worry about the politics?
Maybe sometimes, we have too many believers sitting around doing nothing, idk.
James 4:17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.