Habakkuk 2:15 –
What sorrow awaits you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup on them so you can gloat over their shameful nakedness.
I read this chapter with God’s answer and it made me realize it wasn’t ours to worry about the injustices in the world. Then I read this verse and it made me realize what is happening today is something we cannot sit idly by and watch. First, reading this literarily it sounds like the bar tender is the evil one, but then I think in history and one of the most tragic “cult” happenings was with the People’s Temple and Jim Jones. When things unraveled there were over 900 people who “drank the Kool-Aid” laced with cyanide. This was the largest single loss of American lives in a non-natural disaster before 9/11.
We don’t think about it much now, but this we horrific when you think about it. Some would say this was a mass murder; some call it a mass suicide, either way people died over some prideful nut wanting to gloat over something. Now we get into more present times and metaphorically take this into the financial melt-down. Most of the nation drank the “financial Kool-Aid” and got sucked into the greed, while the fraudsters watched us get drunk. Now much of the nation is naked and broke, while the fraudsters watch in pleasure. So although this was written 2600 years ago we can draw analogies today.
Now the question is do we sit back and pray or take action? That is not a question I can answer, but I do know God does not do things without our participation. God did not part the Red Sea without Moses. Sure we can say our active participation is sitting in our prayer room and bringing it to God. But maybe He is looking for someone to stand up and point out the injustice! I don’t know the answer and hope God works through someone soon to correct this mess before it gets worse for the honest, hardworking people of this nation.