Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Friday, March the 4th, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Jim Denison.

A picture can break your heart.

A now viral photo that you can see at denizenforum.org

shows a father identified as Sirhi, cradling his dead son Aliyya's head, and sobbing as the

teenager's body lay on a stretcher in a Ukrainian hospital. When I saw it, I thought, what if that was one of my sons? Even as I write

these words, pain grips my heart. And I wonder, since we know that God is a father,

isn't this how he feels about every victim of this cruel war?

If so, why does this omnipotent and omniscient God allow such a tragedy?

A huge blaze at the site of Europe's largest nuclear power plant

set the world financial markets tumbling overnight.

It was extinguished today and officials say the plant is operating normally,

though it's now under Russian control.

The plant provides more than a fifth of Ukraine's electricity,

making this a major development in the ongoing conflict.

Yesterday, we asked why is God allowing this escalating

crisis? We focused on the fact that when humans misuse our God-given freedom, the consequences

are not God's fault, but ours. Today, I want to focus on a corollary point. The Lord then redeems even our misused freedom

for his glory and the advancement of his kingdom. He redeemed the evil done by Joseph's brothers

by elevating Joseph to Prime Minister of Egypt. He redeemed Pharaoh's hardened heart by the exodus that freed the

Jewish people. He redeemed Judas's betrayal of Jesus by allowing our Savior's crucifixion

that atoned for our sins and makes possible our salvation. The Bible teaches that God will

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