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God, how come someone else prays, and when they pray, You like seem to do things immediately, but when I pray, You don’t do anything at all?  How come I’ve got these headaches that don’t go away?  Or, how come I’m battling with depression?  Or, how come someone I love is going through this?  And God, it seems like You could do something, but You don’t.  Why?  Why don’t You seem fair?” 

Actually, Habakkuk, the prophet, was incredibly in love with God.  He had a very rich faith, but he, like so many people, he crashed head-on into a faith law, and the things that he saw didn’t line up with the things that he believed, and it was a very difficult season for him. 

Habakkuk, he has three major problems with God.  Let’s summarize them.  The first one, he’s saying, “God, basically number one, You don’t seem to care, okay?  You’re letting all these things go on in the world that don’t seem fair.  God, you must not even care.”  His second complaint to God is this. “You aren’t doing much when You could.”  Now, there’s some respect in this, as if to say, “God, I know You could.  You’re all powerful.  I believe You could.  You could do this one little thing that would change everything, God.  I mean, if I were in Your shoes, I would do it.  I don’t know why You won’t.  You don’t seem to really care.  Yet, what, You’re not doing much when You could.”  And number three, “What You are doing doesn’t seem fair.”  In other words, what Habakkuk was saying is, “God, if I were in Your shoes, I would do things totally different.”