Victims of Innocent Suffering, Biblical Help and Hope.

This is Jim Denison's Daily article for Tuesday, February 12, 2019.

Stories about innocent suffering make the news daily.

Five watercolor paintings attributed to Adolf Hitler failed to sell at auction last weekend,

reminding us that the Nazi dictator was a failed artist

before inciting the deaths of

6 million Jews and 12 million other victims in World War II. Nearly 100 children have died in

Africa from the second deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history. More than 800 people have reported

symptoms. And the appalling report about clergy's sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention

continues to make news today.

Tragically, no organization is immune to such abuse.

The Roman Catholic Church continues to respond to reports of clergy abuse over the last several years.

Sexual abuse scandals have rocked the Presbyterian Church USA, the Boy Scouts, gymnastics, swimming, hockey, college football, and political

leaders as well. A study found that nearly 500 school teachers were arrested in 2015 on sexual

abuse charges. Shockingly, about 10% of children in 8th through 11th grades were found to have

been subjected to some form of sexual abuse by an adult at school, most often a teacher or coach.

Where is God when such tragedies occur?

Job 9 poignantly describes the pain innocent victims feel when God seems to fail them.

Job pictures the omnipotence of the one, who alone stretched out the heavens and trampled the waves of the sea,

who does great things beyond searching out and marvelous things beyond number.

But this omnipotent God seems impervious to Job's cries for help.

As Job says, if I summoned him and he answered me, I would not believe that he was listening

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