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One of the biggest questions people wrestle with as they navigate the existence of God concerns pain, evil, and disappointment. Often, the question will be asked, “How could a loving God allow such pain and evil and injustice in our world? Why doesn’t he stop it?”

I’ll admit, this question has caused a lot of questions and struggle in my own heart and mind. 

And while we often ask these questions on a large macro scale about the world, this question boils down to our immediate worlds: Why does a follower of Jesus get cancer? Why does a couple who loves Jesus struggle to conceive, and then when they get pregnant, they have a miscarriage? Why did that person betray me? Why did that person hurt me? Why is it so hard to make ends meet?

In March, we’re doing a series on the book of Habakkuk called “Wrestling with God,” and I’ve talked about this topic here, here, and here. 

On Sunday, we spent some time walking through what God says to this question in Malachi 2:17-3:5, but the place Malachi takes us is surprising: What does our response to evil, disappointment, and injustice say about us?

What is God trying to reveal to me in my anger at injustice?

To help us think through this, I want you to consider an injustice you see in the world around you and think, “Someone should do something about that.” Do you have it?

Now, have you ever noticed that often the thing that keeps us up at night, the injustice we see, not everyone sees that injustice. Often, the thing we think, “someone should do something about that”, other people see that and shrug their shoulders. 

It isn’t that they don’t see or are callous to it, although that can be true. It might be that God is speaking to you on that. God wants you to step into something. That’s why your heart aches. 

I think our anger at injustice often reveals the places where God is calling us to make a difference.