{"id":3277,"date":"2016-11-07T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2016-11-07T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T17:44:25","slug":"life-election-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2016\/11\/life-election-day.html","title":{"rendered":"Is There Life After Election Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em><strong>They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. Psalm 112:7<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the United States votes for its 45th President. This has\u00a0been one of the most harrowing, dramatic, comical, and tragic of elections with more steep twists and turns than Lombard Street. We long for it to be behind us lest we topple over and stumble uncontrollably, yet we dread the potential outcome.<\/p>\n<p>What do we do when we don\u2019t know what to do? We look to our Manual for Life. We look to God\u2019s Word \u2013 our hope, our security, our pilot, our guidance, our wisdom, our strength.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found my solution, as I often do, in the Psalms. As a believer, I can take to heart the encouragement God gives in His Word. It is possible to live unafraid on November 8, 2016 and beyond. It is possible to not flinch. It\u2019s possible to not fear.<\/p>\n<p>How, when we are so unsure of the outcome? How, when we don\u2019t trust the system? How, when so much is at stake? By putting our hope in God and setting our sights\u00a0heavenward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Father,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>You have instructed me to think about the things of Heaven, not the things of earth. For Heaven is where you say my \u201creal life\u201d is, being \u201chidden with Christ in God.\u201d* My real life is with you, dearest Lord. This life down here on earth is not only temporal, but it is somehow unreal, like the rehearsal for the play, just the prelude \u2013 nay, the tuning \u2013 to the symphony that is in store.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>So, Lord, I give you all my thoughts, feelings, and fears about the music and the drama here. Your Word says that Perfect love drives out fear. So I shall embrace and receive your Perfect love today. I lift my face towards Heaven today and receive the light, love, warmth, and joy of your countenance.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>And regardless of the outcome of this election, I put my trust in you, not in the outcome of a political election, nor in the system \u2013 rigged or not rigged \u2013 nor even in our\u00a0Constitution, as beautiful and providential as it is. I hereby put my trust in my God alone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Still, I pray, let your Kingdom come to the United States of America. Let your Kingdom be born and lived out in Your Church.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Amen<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/files\/2016\/11\/lombard-street.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3289\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/224\/2016\/11\/lombard-street-194x300.jpeg\" alt=\"lombard street\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">*Colossians 3:3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. Psalm 112:7 Tomorrow the United States votes for its 45th President. This has\u00a0been one of the most harrowing, dramatic, comical, and tragic of elections with more steep twists and turns than Lombard Street. We long for it to be behind&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":478,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,9,24,7,4,25,3,1],"tags":[1836,1931,1932,1934,1936,1909,1894,1935,1933],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-bible-prayer","category-breaking-news","category-current-events","category-daily-prayer","category-god","category-jesus","category-prayer","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-presidential-election","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-life-after-election","tag-lombard-street","tag-november-8","tag-politics","tag-rigged-system","tag-vote"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is There Life After Election Day?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/prayerplainandsimple\/2016\/11\/life-election-day.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is There Life After Election Day?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"They do not fear bad news; they confidently trust the Lord to care for them. 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