St. Patrick Presbyterian Church, Epc

God’s people have always lived and been forced to reckon with the mystery of the way God works. I keep thinking I will get to the end of it and figure out what God is up too. But alas, even at my age I sometimes feel like Clark Griswold in Christmas Vacation, when his cousin Eddie shows up and asks, “You surprised to see us, Clark?” And Clark replies, “Oh, Eddie, if I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet I wouldn’t be more surprised than I am now.”  The book of Habakkuk forces us to ponder the mystery of God’s ways. Our problem is, we think we have a right to know how our lives, or the world, ought to go. We live limited by time and geography, in a spot the size of a pin head, in the world. We also have devices that keep up in real time to all the human atrocities in the world, and yet we have no agency to do anything about them. We’re left to wonder, “How can this be?” And yet, God sees the whole story from beginning to end, and he can see and orchestrate his grand plan to glorify himself by usin