Waiting For Justice: Part 2

Does it ever seem like some people just "get away" with behaving badly? When we see people bending the rules or breaking the rules to get what they want, we might wonder why God doesn't do something about it. But the book of Habakkuk shows us that God does indeed do something about it- both in a long term way and in the immediate consequences. And through the details of the five "woes" of Habakkuk 2, we see how much God hates sin, and the incredible lengths He goes to, to remove it from our lives.

“Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The Cup in the Lord’s right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory! The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

“What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols! Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it. But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”

- Habakkuk 2:15-20