WHY DOESN’T GOD SEEM FAIR?

Habakuk 1:2-3 How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?

Habakkuk—to “embrace” or to “wrestle.”

Habakkuk 1:3 - 4 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

HABAKKUK’S PROBLEMS WITH GOD

You don’t seem to really care.
You aren’t doing much when you could.
What you are doing, doesn’t seem fair.

Is it ever okay to question God? Yes!

Questions about God—Faith Struggles—Crisis of belief

GOD’S RESPONSE

Habakkuk 1:5 “Look at the nations and watch—and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.

Habakkuk 1:6-7, 9 I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own. 7 They are a feared and dreaded people… 9 they all come intent on violence...

A committed believer can both WRESTLE with honest questions and EMBRACE a genuine faith in God.

Don’t deny your doubts. Let your doubts drive you to God.

We are just in chapter one.

No answer—No resolution—No miracle. No solution.
So many people walk away from God in chapter one.

Questions To Consider To Apply This Teaching To Your Life....

What did God say to you during this teaching?
What will you DO because of what the He said?