Pray the words of this Lazaroo aloud, with burning emotion:

“…the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.”
(Habakkuk 1:4)

I can’t help but agree, Jesus.

You’ve taught me not to stick my head in the sand and pretend things are better than they are

no matter how brutal the reality.

What is, is.

Everywhere I look, I see

some good person struggling just to make ends meet
while some lowlife is living it up, seemingly without a care in the world.

Here’s the question my doubting friends ask –

which, I have to confess, sometimes eats at me, too:

If You are

All-Loving
All-Knowing
All-Powerful

why don’t You just step in and

instantly reward every good person?
punish every wrongdoer on the spot?

Unless…

this outrageous freedom of choice You’re giving us –

along with its awful consequences! –

is the only way we can discover

Your way is best.

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Job 21:7-18; Job 24:1-14; Psalms 73:2-20; John 14:6; Isaiah 30:21; Isaiah 45:19; Isaiah 49:4; Isaiah 55:9-13; Jeremiah 2:29-30; 1 Corinthians 15:58

What is Lazaroo?

Take Me Deeper

Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.