Memo From the Mann11 Nov 2024

My Faith, Insulted

“you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.” ~ Habakkuk 1:13a

Do you ever look at the world and feel confused by its behavior? Not a day goes by where we’re not bombarded with an endless supply of examples. It seems that every time I really step back and look at it, the world insults my faith. It makes me, a believer, wonder how can this continue ...day in, and day out?

The prophet Habakkuk was wondering the same thing as he watched his world spin in an undesirable free fall. He prayed in what he thought was vain, but God was doing something, something radical.

Like us, Habakkuk was grappling to align God’s nature with his actions, or lack of ...he knew that God wanted justice throughout the world, but wasn’t able to comprehend a plan being executed ...but God was working, as he is today, and just because we don’t understand how he’s implementing it, doesn’t diminish its brilliance.

Like Babylon, our world seems to worship its power ...as it gets rich at the cost of others ... and yes, it insults our faith! ...but we can rest in the promise that God has a plan, and will, and is, enacting it in his time, and in his way.

I encourage you to read the little book of Habakkuk, he exhibits an example of how to respond ...a way of lament.

Pray on...

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