Our Hope Is Coming – Denison Forum

A note from Jim:

Steven Longoria is writing today’s Daily Article. Steven is an aspiring teacher and writer with a degree in Computer Science from Stanford University. He has worked for three years with Denison Forum, serving as our Technology Manager.

He is halfway toward completing his Masters in Theology at Dallas Theological Seminary, then plans to pursue a PhD and continue following God’s ministry call for himself and his wife, Alex. I am grateful for his gifts and know you will benefit from his article today.

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Torrential rainfall may have led to a freak accident on Tuesday. An overpass collapsed in Genoa, Italy, leaving at least thirty-eight people dead and fifteen injured. Dozens of vehicles were cast toward the ground as part of the accident, and hundreds of emergency workers and firefighters are still searching for survivors within the rubble.

In the midst of such unpredictable tragedy, we turn to stories like that of Gianluca Ardini, who claims a miraculous escape from the accident after a blast of air threw him out from under the falling wreckage. Rescuers were able to bring him down from the bridge via ropes. His companion, tragically, had already fallen to his death.

The world’s response to tragedy

It is this one-in-forty survival story that allows emergency responders to still “speak of not giving up hope, although they accept there is very little chance anyone will now be found alive.” It is this attitude of hopefulness that we must strive to maintain as believers who live in a fallen world.

Just this week, forty-eight were killed in the suicide bombing of an education center in Kabul, Afghanistan. Many were teenagers preparing for another semester of university. At the same time, at least seventy-three were killed by heavy monsoon rains in the Indian state of Kerala.

How is it that God calls us to live amid such tragedy?

The world’s response to tragedy is hopelessness. Over seventy people were arrested on Tuesday…