How long?

Sunday October 7th, Habakkuk 1: 2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, "Violence!" but you do not save? 3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong? It is tempting in the midst of evil and injustice to point to God and ask how long will it take for you to do something. At the same time God is looking at us and asking “how long will you continue to tolerate this?” In our latest war, Washington has learned to sanitize it. Get control of the media and redefine what is mainstream by moving the bar way to the right while at the same time criticizing the media for being left wing so that any images or reports that do make it through can be discredited more easily. No images of the dead and wounded coming home or the battles being waged. No images of the million plus Iraqi civilians, men women and children killed and maimed, only an occasional young token boy or girl being treated in our hospitals. And we can be content to see how the football game is going and how the stock market is doing. God asks, “How Long?”