Read Habakkuk 1:12-17
Why…do you tolerate the treacherous? Habakkuk 1:13
In March, 1985, my sister and I had just returned to the United States from Israel. The next day the news reported that Muslims had crashed a vehicle full of explosives into a truck carrying Israeli soldiers. Twelve were killed and the “get-even” policy started all over again.
The crash took place about ten miles from the kibbutz where we had
stayed. Our Israeli guide had taken us to the rolling spring-green
hillside on Golan Heights. There stood a ten-foot tall metal monument,
shaped like a plowshare, that fathers of fallen young Jewish soldiers
had erected.
Dark eyes flashing and fists clenched, Josi vehemently declared,
“Whatever they do to us, we do worse back to them!” He, like Habakkuk,
wondered why God allowed violence to continue against his people. Yet
the other side wonders the same.
Similar conditions exist in many parts of the world. But we must
remember that God’s timetable is not ours; God still holds the world.
I trust God in the midst of questions.
Norma Howard
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