Why? Why Not?
James Merritt
Habakkuk
Introduction
1. When I was prepared this message, coronavirus cases had soared over 300,000, with over 8,000 people dead. America has become a ghost country. Economists predict that unemployment rates could reach almost to the heights of the great depression. The economy has been stopped dead in its tracks. The news gets worse every single day. If you are like me you do find yourself struggling with the two greatest questions that every pastor struggles with and wrestles with in his ministry. I promise I do and you do too! The two questions are simple:
1) Why does god?
2) Why doesn't god?
2. A six-week-year old baby just died of the coronavirus. I prayed for the parents of that baby. You can't help but ask two questions, ''Why does god allow a six-week old baby to die of the coronavirus?'' Also, ''why doesn't god spare the life of a baby with the coronavirus?'' I will be very candid. Had that been my six-week year old son or grandson, I don't think I could have helped (at least temporarily) having what I call ''a shake your fist in the face of god moment'' with those two questions. All over the world there are people who went to bed and slept on a tearstained pillow doing just that - shaking their fist in the face of god and asking two questions, ''why did you?'' And ''why didn't you?''
3. If you have ever felt like shaking your fist in god's face or gone ahead and done it, you aren't the first person and you won't be the last. There is an entire book of the bible built around a man who did just that. You may have heard about it. It is called Habakkuk. It is not a very well known book. In fact, I've never met anybody who has ever said, ''It is my favorite book in the bible.'' It is a book written by a prophet in the Old Testament. If you don't know where it is, it is after the book of Nahum. If you don't know where Nahum is, it is found right before Habakkuk.
4. Seriously, this was a prophet and the only tim ...
James Merritt
Habakkuk
Introduction
1. When I was prepared this message, coronavirus cases had soared over 300,000, with over 8,000 people dead. America has become a ghost country. Economists predict that unemployment rates could reach almost to the heights of the great depression. The economy has been stopped dead in its tracks. The news gets worse every single day. If you are like me you do find yourself struggling with the two greatest questions that every pastor struggles with and wrestles with in his ministry. I promise I do and you do too! The two questions are simple:
1) Why does god?
2) Why doesn't god?
2. A six-week-year old baby just died of the coronavirus. I prayed for the parents of that baby. You can't help but ask two questions, ''Why does god allow a six-week old baby to die of the coronavirus?'' Also, ''why doesn't god spare the life of a baby with the coronavirus?'' I will be very candid. Had that been my six-week year old son or grandson, I don't think I could have helped (at least temporarily) having what I call ''a shake your fist in the face of god moment'' with those two questions. All over the world there are people who went to bed and slept on a tearstained pillow doing just that - shaking their fist in the face of god and asking two questions, ''why did you?'' And ''why didn't you?''
3. If you have ever felt like shaking your fist in god's face or gone ahead and done it, you aren't the first person and you won't be the last. There is an entire book of the bible built around a man who did just that. You may have heard about it. It is called Habakkuk. It is not a very well known book. In fact, I've never met anybody who has ever said, ''It is my favorite book in the bible.'' It is a book written by a prophet in the Old Testament. If you don't know where it is, it is after the book of Nahum. If you don't know where Nahum is, it is found right before Habakkuk.
4. Seriously, this was a prophet and the only tim ...
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