How long, Lord, must we call for help?
Posted on January 22, 2020
Filed under Resources, Theology
“In light of the recent Australian bushfires, we perhaps cannot be blamed for asking, Why is God allowing such a thing to happen? How can God turn a blind eye to the devastation that has come as a result of these fires – the loss of property, animals, even human life? Why doesn’t God do something about it? Why does God allow so many to needlessly suffer?
It is these kinds of questions that the prophet Habakkuk also struggled with, roughly six hundred years before Christ. …”
– Ben George writes at The Australian Church Record.