MAX LUCADO: What happens after Election Day, November 5th?

AND national elections on us Friends, family and neighbors are at odds.

Results may be contested. What time are we in? Between the hubris and the vote, it’s hard to see our way to a time of hope, of peace.

Miracle what will happen after November 5? For a believer, it is very similar to November 4. pray love Trust.

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pray Maybe you don’t know how to pray. Everything seems so confusing, so angry, so exhausting. Here are two topics you can consider in your conversation with God.

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Let’s raise our nation. We are a family with such a common history and an important future. Ask God to humble us, hear us, and heal us. It may seem useless, but remember – the power is not in the one who prays, but in the God who hears.

And we ask God to help our neighbors, and let this help begin with us. Pray for compassion to reach a single mother across the hallway at work and the locked nursing home. Pray for hope for those still recovering from the storms – regardless of the name of the storm Helen or Miltonor divorce or chronic illness. May God bring his healing balm of hope.

And pray for those neighbors with whom you disagree. Yes, even the ones that drive you crazy. The quickest way to extinguish the fire of anger is with a bucket of prayers. Instead of blaming, pray. Jesus did it. Hanging on the cross, he interceded for his enemies: “Father, let them go, they do not know what they are doing” (Lk. 23:34).

We are never more like Jesus than when we pray for others – those with whom you agree and those with whom you do not. Pray for this suffering world. God takes care of it all.

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love Now love is not the parable of the day. Controversy, yes. Anxiety, probably. Fear, our constant companion. But love seems to be lacking.

Let’s check our source. This troubled world is no place to look for steadfast love. Instead, let us turn our gaze to a merciful God whose love never fails. Governments fail, but God’s love will last. Crowns are temporary, but love is eternal. Your money will run out, but his love never will.

May God love you. And let him help you share this love with others. Right now, stop for a moment and make a list of three people you can express your love to today—quietly, simply, and unconditionally. I promise you that the offer of love will return to you in an unexpected way, and the hope meter in your heart will rise like the morning sun.

And finally, trust. It’s hard, I know. There are so many unknowns and what we do know is worrying. These are troubling times with challenges both at home and abroad. Leadership matters. But whether the chosen candidate takes the White House or not, we can know that God is in charge of who is in charge. In Proverbs it is said that the king’s heart is like a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he directs it wherever he pleases (Proverbs 21:1).

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May I suggest that we lift our eyes and change our minds? We may encounter problems of this world focusing on the promise of what follows. The future is not so scary if you know the future. And you can know the future when you know who controls it.

One of my favorite sermon picture books has a story about a missionary and his son. They moved from England to Central Africa in the company of four other adults. Three of them died. His father’s health began to fail, so he decided to return to England.

He and his boy spent several days hopping across Africa in an old, broken cart. Having reached the coast, they went by sea to England. In a few hours they encountered a violent storm. The waves and the wind combined to create the sound of cannon shots and rock the ship from stem to stern. During the lull in the storm, the father held and warmed his son.

Then the boy asked, “Father, when will we have a house that will not be moved?”

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I can’t vouch for the story. The book does not contain any source. But I can certainly vouch for the question. I asked for it. You asked for it. Every man has felt this world with its troubles and upheavals, and has asked, “God, when shall we have a house that shall not be moved?”

His answer? “Soon, dear child. Very soon.”

This world is so upside downwill be right side up. People who are rejected in this life will be respected in the next. At this time they were enslaved and sold; in the next they will rule and reign. At that time they were disabled and sick; in the next they will serve with perfected, glorified bodies.

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It sounds like heaven. Sounds like the perfect ending. It sounds like a grand finale to the story of God.

We can pray, we can love and we can trust, my friend. What God says will happen will happen.

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