Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Dennis in Forum, and this is the Daily article for Friday, October 12, 2018.

Last weekend, Michael was a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean. It was barely a hurricane Tuesday morning, with winds of 90 miles per hour, as the Associated Press reports, quote,

a little over a day later, it had transformed into a monster. Its wind speed increased 72% in less than 33 hours.

Storms are known to do this, but normally we see this happening when it's away from land.

According to a University of Florida climatologist, she adds, what's unusual is that it's happening so close to land.

The Atlantic now ranks it as, quote, among the most

ferocious landfalling hurricanes in American history. The Washington Post agrees describing

Michael as, quote, one of the most intense hurricanes to ever hit the United States. It moved toward Georgia

and Alabama by evening, becoming the first category 3 storm to hit Georgia since 1898.

We've developed the most advanced meteorological technology known to humanity.

Hurricane experts use satellites, boys, and aircraft flown into the developing storm.

They combine data from various predictive models, but our best scientific instruments are no match for nature.

This week's devastation is another reminder that our world is more unpredictable and ungovernable than we wish to think.

It's human nature to believe in the permanence of the present and to assume an even better future,

but there's only one way to face tomorrow with guaranteed hope.

Have you ever wondered how the religious authorities could reject the teachings of the Son of God?

Or how such astute theological minds could miss the truth of his revelation while Galilean fishermen and common crowds hurt him with grateful appreciation? The answer is that we cannot fully understand God's word until we

choose to obey it. Psalm 112 verse 1 assures us, Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who delights

greatly in his commandments. Greatly delights, translates Hebrew words that can be literally rendered,

takes the highest degree of pleasure. Hebrew parallelism uses the first line

to explain the second. Thus, the person who fears and reverences God is the person who

greatly delights in his will and word. Such a person is blessed by our Lord. Obedience to God

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