It's Thursday, January the 11th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Israel announced

recently that it intends to kill every Hamas leader behind the October 7th massacre wherever they are in the

world. The IDF, Israel Defense Force, knows precisely where Yaya Sinwar, the mastermind of the

October 7th terror attacks is hiding in Gaza. Why haven't they taking them out? Because he is hiding

behind a large number of Israeli hostages. What should we think of a God who allows people to suffer for sins they didn't commit?

We understand when choices affect those who commit them, when a smoker develops lung cancer,

we grieve for them, but we don't wonder why they're sick.

The Roman Stoic philosopher, Masonius Rufus' observation,

is true to life. Quote, if you accomplish something good with hard work, the labor passes

quickly, but the good endures. If you do something shameful in pursuit of pleasure,

the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures. End quote.

However, it is unfair for choices to harm those who don't make them.

When a non-smoker gets lung cancer from secondhand smoke,

we ask how God can be holy when the world he created is so unjust.

David asked our question in Psalm 10, verse 1. why, O Lord, do you stand far away? Why do you hide

yourself in times of trouble? In verse 2, David then listed the many ways, the wicked hotly pursue

the poor, while saying to themselves in verse 11, God has forgiven, he has hidden his face,

he will never see it. But the wicked are wrong. David prayed in verse 14, you do see,

for you note mischief and vexation that you may take it into your hands. To you, the helpless

commits himself. You have been the helper of the fatherless.

From verse 18, David doesn't tell us how or when God will do justice to the fatherless and the

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