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How Long, O Lord? An Honest Complaint and a Choice to Rejoice Anyway | Habakkuk 1–3
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Today we read Habakkuk, a book built as a conversation. It does not open with a sermon. It opens with a grievance: how long, Lord, must I call for help and you not listen? Violence is everywhere, the law is paralyzed, justice comes out perverted. And crucially, this complaint is Scripture. Wrestling honestly with God is not the opposite of faith; it is what faith sounds like under pressure.
God's answer makes things worse before better. He is raising up the Babylonians—ruthless, impetuous, a people who sweep across the earth taking what is not theirs. Habakkuk's second…
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