The man who was not allowed to board Flight 302, say thank you to God.

This is Jim Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Tuesday, March 12, 2019.

When I arrived, boarding was closed, and I watched the last passengers in the tunnel go in.

I screamed to put me in, but they didn't allow it.

This is how a Greek passenger named

Antonus Marvropolis described his attempt to board Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 last Sunday morning.

He was not allowed to board the next flight to Nairobi after the airline lost contact with the

flight he was supposed to take. He says that a security staff member told me gently not to protest

and say thank you to God

because I'm the only passenger who did not enter the flight. Antonis Marvropolis has abundant

reason to say thank you to God today. What about those who lost someone on the airplane he tried

to board? The 157 victims of Flight 302 were a small percentage of the 153,424 people who die every day around the world.

But the sudden shock of their deaths made their loss especially tragic. Is the Christian faith

truly relevant at a time like this? One of the finest pastors in America, a dear friend of mine,

lost his oldest son recently.

As the father of two and grandfather of four, I cannot begin to imagine his pain,

or that of the family's grieving over the Ethiopian airline tragedy.

At times like this, grief can turn us from God in bitterness and disappointment.

If he's our loving father, why does he allow his children to suffer so terribly? Or grieve can turn us toward God in faith and disappointment. If he's our loving father, why does he allow his children to suffer so

terribly? Or grieve can turn us toward God in faith and hope. Since he's our loving father,

won't he help us through these days of despair and pain? Nothing about the Ethiopian jet crash

changed the character of God. If he loved us before, he loves us still. If he was king of the

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