God Does Not Disappoint!

In today's first reading, Habakkuk 1: 2-3; 2: 2-4, the prophet says to the Lord:  "Lord, I cry out for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you, 'Violence!' but you do not intervene.  Why do you let me see ruin; why must I look at  misery? Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and clamorous discord. Then the Lord answered me and said: Write down the vision clearly upon tablets, so that one can read it readily. For the vision still has its time, presses on to fulfillment, and will not disappoint; if it delays, wait for it, it will surely come, it will not be late. The rash one has no integrity; but the just one, because of his faith shall live."

We may wonder as we listen to the news each night: Does God really care? When is all this strife going to come to an end, we might be out cry to the Lord.  How many more children need be separated from their parents? How many more times need laws be violated? How many more treaties need be negated that were set up to protect us and Mother Earth? How many more atrocities need be committed by unjust governments, by criminals exploiting children and women for monetary gain? Are you listening, Lord?

Habakkuk reminds us that God is not deaf nor blind to what is happening anywhere in the world. He also reminds us that God's timing is perfect and that His vision for the world presses on to fulfillment.  God's justice and God's truth will not disappoint. God's solution to the injustice, the corruption, the lack of truth, the scandals, the lawlessness, the violence of any kind that exist in any nation will not disappoint. Neither will God's timing be late, though we may think it is! And just as God freed the Israelites from the oppression of Pharaoh, so, too, will God free all of humankind from the oppression of dictators anywhere in the world.  God knows better than we do how much Satan has deceived those who abuse their authority and those who support them; God is not blind or deaf to our cries for justice, truth and respect of law!  God will act at the right time and the right place and through the people He chooses to act on His behalf and through His power!  God will not disappoint ever!

I believe? Do you?