Have you ever finished watching the evening news with all the violence and injustice in the world and in frustration asked, why isn’t God doing something? Why do the wicked and the dishonest people prosper? Why are they elected to the White House? Well, that is not a new feeling. A prophet named Habakkuk felt that way around 620 B.C. and wrote a book about it.
Habakkuk’s name means to “embrace” or “wrestle”
If God is good, then why is there evil in the world? And if there has to be evil, then why do the evil prosper? What is God doing in the world?
While Habakkuk begins by wondering or worrying about the world around him and God’s seeming indifference, he ends by worshiping God.
Habakkuk progresses from questioning God to trusting God.
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