They Sweep Past Like The Wind And Go On

How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save?

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.

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

“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.

I am raising up the Babylonians, that ruthless and impetuous people, who sweep across the whole earth to seize dwellings not their own.

They are a feared and dreaded people; they are a law to themselves and promote their own honor.

Their horses are swifter than leopards, fiercer than wolves at dusk.

Their cavalry gallops headlong; their horsemen come from afar.

They fly like an eagle swooping to devour; they all come intent on violence.

Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand.

They mock kings and scoff at rulers.

They laugh at all fortified cities; by building earthen ramps they capture them.

Then they sweep past like the wind and go on—guilty people, whose own strength is their god.”

Habakkuk 1:2-11

Are you waiting on God? Are you asking, How long, Lord before justice prevails in our world? Before there is a cure for cancer? Before we are no longer in debt?

Yet we are not alone. As with Habakkuk, God hears our burdens. We must continue to cast them on the Lord because He cares for us. God hears us and, in His time, will give an answer.

Don’t despair because of evil; God will have the last word.

Our Daily Bread – October 7, 2017