The Grands Letter

Dear Grands,

Habakkuk 1:1-4, “The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

2 How long, O LORD, will I call for help, and You will not hear? I cry out to You, “Violence!” Yet You do not save.

3 Why do You make me see iniquity, and cause me to look on wickedness? Yes, destruction and violence are before me; strife exists and contention arises.

4 Therefore the law is ignored and justice is never upheld. For the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.”

Whether we admit it or not, we’re all very much like the prophet Habakkuk. How many times have we prayed until we were ready to give up because we had no answer?

A mother might seek to encourage her young ones with the thought that “the LORD is very busy; He will answer when He has time.”

But for those of us who have lived long with Him, an answer like we might give to our children is not sufficient. We’re adults! Where is the LORD? Why has He not replied?

Well, if we’re truly adults, we should act like adults. Of course, the LORD is busy, but He is THE LORD! He can provide a thousand responses to His people in numerous countries in a nanosecond of time. To Him, time itself is of no importance. It is no impediment to His Divine decrees. In the meantime, we are being taught to be patient—or are we?

How often, when told to wait, does a child respond with, “But I want it NOW!” Is it not sufficient that He has heard us? We wait on responses from others. Is He not more important than they? Certainly, He is! Perhaps that is why He appears to delay.

“Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called… and be thankful” (Col. 3:15).

Heartily yours in Christ Jesus,

Gene L. Jeffries, Th.D.
United States of America

“We will never know that Christ is all we need

Until He becomes all that we have.”

–Corrie ten Boom