There were many, varying responses concerning the outcome of the 2016 election this past week. Some Americans responded with joy, some with fear, and others with violence. Across the nation, we heard about sit-ins, read facebook posts, and engaged in political conversation. Despite the unknown that will inevitably come in our future, my campus has maintained an underlying hope. No matter who students and faculty voted for, we chose to band together and support America's overall decision. Our professors reminded us of our hope in class, peers mentioned it in mass group messages, and family members encouraged us about it from home. It is not something we do not already know about, just something that needs often reminders. No matter who is considered the ruler of our nation, we must remember that God is the ruler of our world, and he put our President elect in a place of power for a specific reason that we do not yet know. In American history, we have had awful Presidents before. Spoiler alert: our nation survived it. We have also had men elected that we felt uneasy about that turned out to be beneficial to the state of our nation. The American public needs to calm down. We as American citizens need to stop freaking out about things we cannot predict and cannot do anything to change at this point in time. These claims are not made to say that we should sit back and passively accept everything our President and government chooses to put into practice or carry out as laws in the coming day. I fully believe that it is still important for us to stand up for our beliefs and fight for those (in a non-violent way, of course). However, the political power has not shifted yet. The same man who was elected 8 years ago still sits in the office today. We are overreacting way before is due. Things ahead are going to look different than they ever have before, but as Christians, we should not be fearful. God has it all figured out, and we are here to make sure we stand for His purpose and His commandments. We should be America's biggest advocates for Truth, Justice, and Hope. Here is a piece of this very hope: we may not know what will happen 20 years from now or even tomorrow, but we know exactly what will happen to us when we come to the end of our lives. We trade this uncertainty now for an eternal certainty, which is a pretty good trade-off. If we do not choose to hold tight to hope in the days to come, no one will.