Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? (Habakkuk 1:13)

Without question, each of us knows what it’s like to suffer injury directly or indirectly at the hands of another person. Many blameless individuals bare deep psychological scars because of someone else’s problems or behavior. Some of us have mourned the injury, even the death of an innocent because of another’s evil acts.

Like the prophet Habakkuk, we ask Why, God, do you tolerate this? Why are you silent while wicked individuals wreak havoc on innocent people’s lives?

No one knows the answer to such questions. No one knows why heartless, wicked people seem to get away with so much or why the innocent and defenseless are denied justice and vindication.

But this we do know...

Even Jesus, the sinless Son of God, had to wait to be vindicated. After receiving the death penalty for crimes he did not commit, he was crucified. Despite the injustice, he asked the Father to forgive his killers. He assured one of the criminals executed with him that he would join Jesus in paradise. Our Lord’s vindication was three days in coming, days he lay in a tomb. Then came his resurrection, the most glorious vindication in history, an event that has changed billions of lives through the ages.