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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Habakkuk 1:12-17

Are you not from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment,
and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
You make mankind like the fish of the sea,
like crawling things that have no ruler.
He brings all of them up with a hook;
he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet;
so he rejoices and is glad.
Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury,
and his food is rich.
Is he then to keep on emptying his net
and mercilessly killing nations forever? (ESV)

by Paula Davis

Why? A question we ask of God so often yet is often not for us to know. God is omnipotent; we are not. He knows why he allows certain things to happen and not others. He sees a future we cannot see. As I was recently unemployed for 5 months, I asked, “Why?” a number of times. I had interviews that went very well, yet I did not get the job. This time God allowed me to see “why.” He has blessed me with a job that is beyond my expectations, including benefits most places can’t come close to matching. God does not always allow us to know “why,” but we can trust that he knows and whatever he is doing is in our best interest.



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Daily Bible Meditations are taken from The Helping Hand,a Sabbath School student quarterly for youth and adults. Copyright © 2008, Seventh Day Baptist Board of Christian Education, Inc.

Scripture quotations marked "ESV" are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service .