Passionate, honest, even angry prayers were expressed by many people in the bible. Habakkuk wasn’t the only one to give voice to his complaints. Moses, Gideon, Elijah and Job, among others, also questioned and argued with God.
God listens with a sympathetic ear when we complain about injustice. Whenever we are shaken by life’s unfairness, we should realize that God was bothered by such things long before we were. In fact, injustice would not upset us at all if God had not given us a sense of justice. Where else could we get a sense of right and wrong if not from God?
Because God knows our deepest thoughts, we might as well be honest with him (and ourselves) and admit our feelings of outrage or confusion. But watch out! God’s “answer” may be as perplexing as the problem. God isn’t obligated to answer our questions as we’d expect.
As Habakkuk, Job and the others discovered, God seldom explains himself or his ways completely. When he does, people don’t have the capacity to comprehend His answers, but they are overwhelmed with His power and love. In the end, though we may not know the answers to our questions, we come to know God better.
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