Five reasons Americans are so stressed about the election: How and why to trust God when we don’t understand him
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 30 October 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
More than 69 percent of Americans say they are stressed over next week’s presidential election. Today we identify five reasons why and turn to God’s unchanging character and gracious providence for the encouragement and hope we need. When it feels like God is ignoring your prayers or denying your wants, there are two facts we can lean on and remember.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October the 30th, 2024, and this is the Daily Article podcast. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:16.5 | More than 69% of Americans say they are stressed over next week's presidential election. |
| 0:23.0 | Here are five reasons. |
| 0:25.1 | One, the elections are longer and more expensive than ever before, causing many to tire |
| 0:30.6 | of all the ads and worry about the influence of donors on politicians. |
| 0:35.5 | Two, over 70% of Americans are concerned about election violence and the future of democracy. |
| 0:42.0 | 3. Trust in the media to report election news fairly and accurately has fallen to an all-time low. |
| 0:49.6 | The recent furor over newspaper endorsements illustrates the controversy in which many in the media |
| 0:56.1 | find themselves. |
| 0:57.7 | Four, three-fourths of Americans are worried about the future of our nation and the economy. |
| 1:03.5 | And five, nearly half of all voters are skeptical that self-governance is working in America |
| 1:09.8 | today. |
| 1:10.7 | Yesterday, we distinguish between the secularist ambition to create a humanistic utopia |
| 1:16.6 | that does not exist and the biblical ambition to advance a spiritual utopia, spelled with an E, |
| 1:23.6 | meaning the good place, that improves the present while preparing for the |
| 1:28.1 | eternal. Today, we are faced with a third option, a dystopia, in which, quote, people lead |
| 1:35.2 | wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. How do we pray effectively in times like these? If you're |
| 1:42.1 | like me, there have been many times when you prayed in the |
| 1:45.4 | midst of pain and adversity, but God did not give the answer for which you pled. It seems that |
| 1:51.9 | sometimes, as C.S. Lewis felt in grieving the death of his wife, there is, quote, a door slammed |
| 1:58.0 | in your face and the sound of a bolting and double bolting on the inside. |
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