Our senior pastor Mark Mitchell is going to preach a short series on the book of Habakkuk. When he first told us to turn to it, I was like, "What the heck?" It's one of the final books in the Old Testament. You should seriously get an award if you already knew that. Habakkuk was an prophet back in the day. And man, does he have a bone to pick with God. I don't want to get in the middle of it, but basically, Habakkuk is mad that God is allowing a "ruthless and impetuous" group of conquerers to have their way with his people. What I find interesting is when Habakkuk complains about the utter lack of choice or control that humans have over their lives. We are at the mercy of cruel people. We may create an illusion of control, but any one of us could easily be crushed or ruined at any given moment. As a card-carrying control freak, I find this maddening. Here's how Habakkuk puts it:
"Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things without a ruler over them?"
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