how long

Sunday October 6^th, 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 (plural, humanity) and asking “how long will you continue to tolerate this?”  We are winding down in Afghanistan and the aftermath of the Bush wars, years and years and billions and trillions too late.  Now that we have created enemies out of friends we are being tempted to continue the conflict, a gift to the military industrial complex, in new and exotic places. We voted for change and got delayed gratification while the profiteers continue to influence foreign policy and purchase politicians.  How Long O Lord, how Long will you let us go on?  Those who volunteered for ideals find themselves praying at the graves of their friends, how long O Lord, how long?  Let us simply answer the question with a firm and fervent “no more!”  Let us support our fallen comrades and brothers and sisters and moms and dads with the cry of “no more!  Let us end this satanic drive toward corporate war profit with “no more!”  In this world of corporate greed driven killing, let us not simply be content to see how the football game is going and how the stock market is doing?  God asks us, “How Long?”  The answer is still waiting.