Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Friday, August 17, 2018.

Today's daily article is written by Stephen Longoria, IT manager with Denison Forum. It's being read by Chris Elkins of Denison Forum.

I hope you enjoy his perspective on news discern differently.

Our Hope is Coming, written by Stephen Longoria. Tarrantial rainfall may have led to a

freak accident on Tuesday. An overpass collapsed in Genoa, Italy, leaving at least 38 people dead,

and 15 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. It is this one-and-40 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, 48 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 73 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 70 people were arrested on Tuesday night,

next to Yale University's campus, after overdosing on a new strain of marijuana, laced with fentanyl,

a lethal painkiller in even the smallest doses. People know the world is not as it should be, but escapism is only a

temporary cure-all. Our hope is in eternity. The world we live in would tell us that hope is

closely tied to doubt. To say, I hope it doesn't rain tomorrow, carries with it a fear that it will likely rain.

For the firefighters in Italy, to say they hope they find more survivors, shows they doubt that

any remain. Biblical hope is something entirely different. It conveys a state of confidence, security, and lack of worry.

Doubt has nothing to do with it. Hebrews 111 tells us,

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