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“You are always righteous, O Lord, when I bring a case before You. Yet I would speak with You about Your justice: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?” Jeremiah 12:1Jeremiah 12:1
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12 ¹ Righteous are you, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet would I reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

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Like Jeremiah, Lord, I would like a word with You about the state of Your world today. Every night on the television news, every morning in the newspapers, I see stories of war, violence and mayhem. It seems like there is not a part of the world where somebody isn’t trying to blow up somebody else. Now this wouldn’t seem so bad if it were just the protagonists fighting each other. At least they could say that they had chosen their own fate. I remember old Mrs Murphy, our music teacher in high school who used to say that instead of having wars, we should round up the king or prime minister of all the combatant countries, put them out in the middle of a paddock, and let them fight it out together, whilst the rest of us stood around the fence line and watched. Sounds like a pretty good idea to me, Lord. Then it would only be those who chose to fight that would get killed or wounded. But it’s not, Lord. It’s all the women and kids, all the ordinary people who only want to go about their business and let everyone else go about theirs.

And what about all the injustices, Lord? What about all the people who are denied their rights by unjust governments, or those that have their life savings ripped off by scumbag crooks? On the other hand, what about the scumbag crooks that prosper in everything they do, living the high life on other people’s hard-earned money?

Your Word tells me that You are a God of Justice. So why don’t you bring about some justice in Your world? Why don’t You stop people behaving like they do?

Hmmm…. but then, I guess You don’t stop me behaving badly when I choose to, either, do You? And You certainly don’t always give me the punishment I deserve for my behavior! Whooooops! I guess I’d better back off here, or I could get myself in a whole heap of trouble, couldn’t I? But does that mean that we just have to put up with the way the world is? To grin and bear it, and do nothing?

Hold on, Your Word tells me something else. It tells me that the problems aren’t really people, but satan and his cohorts. It also tells me that You have given us, Your people, authority over them. Have I missed something? Have I been demanding You to do something, when in fact You have been waiting for me to use the authority that You have already given Me?

Sorry, Lord. Help me to stand for You and be a force for change in my world.