Sunday, April 1, 2018

God is good and righteous; Habakkuk 1:1-17

Habakkuk   1:1-17
Habakkuk complained God do not listen to his prayer. Why do you make me look at injustice?  Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Why do you make me look at injustice?    
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
The law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
The Lord's answer, For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told. I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.
The prophet Habakkuk is battling with much the same problem as Job and the writer of Psalm 73: the fact that while the good, the innocent, suffer, the wicked flourish. So Habakkuk, believing that God is just and good, asks his questions. Why, God, Why?
O God, why are you deaf to my prayer? Why don't you do something about the breakdown of law and order, about the wickedness in the land? the prophet cries.
God's answer seems only to aggravate the problem: 'My punishment will be an invasion of savage Babylonian soldiers!'
Why?
So Habakkuk replies, 'How can you, the all-good, the just God, use such a vicious instrument of judgment - you who cannot bear the sight of evil? Will you let Babylon fish the sea of humanity for ever?
These questions are existing in this world, people asked why such evil doer do not be punished? How long they can prevail in this world? Where is the justice of the Lord?

The Lord give them chance to repent, to turn back, even us sometime is not good enough. Because God loves us, the right of just is belong to the Lord. No one can judge other.
How?
Pray and listen the word of God, for God is good and righteous. God's work never late or delay, God has his schedule and plan.

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