Why does God let his people fall sometimes?
2025 was rough.
Not in a dramatic way, but in the small ways no one sees. The kind where you drift further from where you want to be in inches instead of yards. Then one day you look up and wonder how you landed here. It’s never the big decisions that change where you end up. It’s the micro-movements; keeping your head down, watching your feet instead of looking forward, tracking the next step without making sure it actually leads where you want to go.
Today, I started the Book of Habakkuk. I chose it because it’s different. You don’t hear it referenced often in church, and no one names their child Habakkuk, but it’s thought-provoking.
In this book, Habakkuk asks God why He allows evil to exist. In this context, he’s referring to the Chaldeans—another name for the Babylonians.
They are wreaking havoc in Judah, corrupting God’s people, and their siege is only rising. Habakkuk confronts God.
He wants to know why God seems silent while injustice spreads—and why God would allow His own people to fall so far before intervening.
If I’m being brutally honest, sometimes I ask God the same questions while looking in the mirror. I’m not evil, but sometimes I lose my character, or at least the person I strive to be. It will be interesting to see how God responds as I read further.
If you’d like to slow down and look more closely at the text, you can read my reflections on verses 1–2 here.
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