God responds to evil in ways we don’t always understand.  Does this mean He is not responding at all? Maybe the way He responds to evil should inspire our response to the broken world around us.

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Thinkers for thousands of years have asked why God allows evil people to prosper.  Habakkuk adds his complaint to this list.  What does this inspired complaint tell us about ourselves, our world and our God?

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Lawyers are told never to ask a witness a question publically, if they do not already know the answer.  Habakkuk did not follow that advice.  God gives an answer that changed the prophet’s world view.  What does this response teach us about our own world view?

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The prophet, Habakkuk, was a good man who had some serious questions about his good God, who, at the moment, did not seem very good.  Do such questions help us? Do they matter to God?

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The connection between hearing and doing is often tenuous.  Often we do not translate words into action unless something convincing happens. We can either go through the motions and pretend to care, or we can own our failures and, through God’s restoring power, we can  become genuinely better people.

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Winning matters, unless you are playing the wrong game. Finishing first is finishing last if you are running in the wrong direction.  Paul argues that we should clarify what we are aiming for, before we take off after it.

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While the world falls apart, it is easy to accuse and assign blame; however, then we are simply part of the problem. Truly helpful and caring people move on to the next stage and help people to discover a new, healing way of life.  

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Without a sense of urgency, we seldom choose to change.  Unless we view ourselves drowning, we will not recognize our rescuer. Paul sounds the alarm about a world that is perishing from a lack of God’s ways, and we will serve our world best if we see it through those eyes.

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Paul is convinced that God will make this world right again, and he intends to devote his whole life to that effort.  What has convinced him so profoundly?  Will the same truths convince us to be part of God’s restoration plans? 

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For Paul, “grace” and “peace” are not polite, formal greetings. They describe God’s transforming power available to anyone who wants to be part of the solution in a world torn apart by centuries of hatred.

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