Flight Paths

If the wicked really are stronger than the forces of righteousness, as they think, and if the wicked really go unpunished more often than not, as we think in our gloomier moments, then how is it that wickedness has not won the day long before now?  Why does not the completely unscrupulous use of power wipe out the scrupulous, if that kind of power and that lack of moral restraint is really so unbeatable…Why haven't the forces of evil wiped out all resistance long ago?  Why are there any righteous left?  The answer must be that there really is something else going on in this world.  There really is a force—and we know who it is:  Yahweh, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ—greater than armies, bombs, bribery, and torture, and it is he who thwarts the efforts of the wicked and gives to the righteous another kind of power (not of this world, the New Testament says) to enable them to resist and endure.

Donald E Gowan, The Triumph of Faith in Habakkuk