Contemplative Bible Reading

Habakkuk 1:3b (New Living Translation)

I am surrounded by people
    who love to argue and fight.

I copied title from the news today. No, not really. I copied it from this verse. The prophet wrote this a few thousand years ago. Someone at the Washington Post or whatever could copy these words and put them where ever it is that “newspapers” put words these days.

Trouble is, the “new”spapers have little that is new. It is all repeats from several thousand years, and it is all about us.

What is wrong with us? Why is it that after several thousands years of fighting wars that stem from arguments about the color of the grass or the direction the wind blows that we still do these things? Won’t we ever learn from any of this?

Questions, questions, questions. We know the answers. We don’t like the answers. So we keep asking the questions hoping someone will give us a new answer. Hasn’t happened in 20 or 30 or 40 centuries.

We rejected God. God gives us a way to return to God. Will we accept God’s way? Maybe we will simply argue and fight about it for a few more centuries.