Where Are You, God? (1 of 5)
Series: How Long God? - Habakkuk
Tim Badal
Habakkuk 1:1-4
Over the next few weeks we're going to be unfolding the prophetic message that came to a man who had a lot of questions for God. The prophet Habakkuk strongly laments his time and situation. Today we can at look our world as well and wonder if any of it makes sense. We see so much injustice and struggle and sin that we ask, ''God, where are You? Why aren't You doing something?'' These are the same questions Habakkuk was asking in his day. There was a lot of violence and treachery, and he wondered, as a follower of God, how a loving and powerful God could apparently sit idly by while all kinds of evil was taking place.
Of course, sometimes we get too busy to see the evil around us. I was struck by this evil when I recently saw the story of a mother named Isabel Martinez on TV. You may have heard of this horrific story as well. A mom of four, who was married to a man in suburban Atlanta, for some unknown reason-some sort of evil in her heart-stabbed all four of her children and her husband to death. What made me even more angry was when they showed her being arraigned in the courtroom. You would have thought you would have seen a stoic woman; one who seemed distant. No. When the camera came on Isabel, she gave two thumbs up and smiled. How can God allow innocence, like four kids and a loving husband, to be snuffed out-and then the murderer give a smile and thumbs up? It seems as if God doesn't care about justice.
As we take a broader view of this issue of evil, we see injustice all around us in our world. In the last century we have seen more people killed through war than the total number of people killed in all the preceding centuries. Many of the millions who were killed were innocent people, non-combatants. We've seen the mass slaughter of entire people groups through genocide and holocausts. There are too many of those in the past hundred years even to mention.
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Series: How Long God? - Habakkuk
Tim Badal
Habakkuk 1:1-4
Over the next few weeks we're going to be unfolding the prophetic message that came to a man who had a lot of questions for God. The prophet Habakkuk strongly laments his time and situation. Today we can at look our world as well and wonder if any of it makes sense. We see so much injustice and struggle and sin that we ask, ''God, where are You? Why aren't You doing something?'' These are the same questions Habakkuk was asking in his day. There was a lot of violence and treachery, and he wondered, as a follower of God, how a loving and powerful God could apparently sit idly by while all kinds of evil was taking place.
Of course, sometimes we get too busy to see the evil around us. I was struck by this evil when I recently saw the story of a mother named Isabel Martinez on TV. You may have heard of this horrific story as well. A mom of four, who was married to a man in suburban Atlanta, for some unknown reason-some sort of evil in her heart-stabbed all four of her children and her husband to death. What made me even more angry was when they showed her being arraigned in the courtroom. You would have thought you would have seen a stoic woman; one who seemed distant. No. When the camera came on Isabel, she gave two thumbs up and smiled. How can God allow innocence, like four kids and a loving husband, to be snuffed out-and then the murderer give a smile and thumbs up? It seems as if God doesn't care about justice.
As we take a broader view of this issue of evil, we see injustice all around us in our world. In the last century we have seen more people killed through war than the total number of people killed in all the preceding centuries. Many of the millions who were killed were innocent people, non-combatants. We've seen the mass slaughter of entire people groups through genocide and holocausts. There are too many of those in the past hundred years even to mention.
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