The Polar Vortex, Seven Foot Pythons, and Divine Sovereignty.

This is Jim Denison's daily article for Thursday, January 31st, 2019.

Last week, a snake catcher in Australia removed a seven-foot python that had slithered

through an open door and climbed into the shower.

In another Australian home, a woman found a python in her

toilet bowl. The reason for such serpentine domestication, it's hot in Australia, record-setting hot.

Temperatures hit 117 in Sydney recently, the hottest it has been since 1939. Reptiles are

looking for shade and water, like everyone else.

Meanwhile, its record-setting cold in the northern U.S.

Chicago had a windshield of negative 52 degrees yesterday morning.

Nearly 90 million people are likely to experience temperatures at zero or below.

People in Minnesota could get frostbite after five minutes outside.

Beer can't be delivered in some parts of the Midwest because it would freeze before arriving.

As I write this daily article, the temperature in Madison, Wisconsin is minus 26 degrees.

Much about today's news leaves us feeling powerless. The death toll from the Brazilian dam collapse has risen to 99, with another 259 missing

and feared dead.

A gardener in Toronto has pled guilty to killing eight men, some of whom he buried in planters.

Floods in Saudi Arabia have killed at least 12 people.

If we believe in an all-powerful God, or even if we don't,

we wonder why he allows so much suffering in his creation. If a car had as many problems as our

planet, we'd hold the manufacturer responsible. Of course, this analogy breaks down when we

discover that the fall, not divine mismanagement, led to the brokenness of our planet.

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