For All the Wrong in the World: Taste and See

Cos if anyone understands 'It's not fair': It's God Himself

Aug 27, 2025

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Hi Guys, welcome to this week’s episode — a blast from the past with some fresh insights. Thanks to all the new subscribers, you are welcome here and I would love to hear from you. I hope you have enjoyed the series on Habakkuk and are enjoying our journey through Jeremiah (‘enjoying’ might be the wrong choice of word for Jeremiah, but you know what I mean). This post takes a song inspired by ‘right and wrong’ — and brings it into context. May it encourage you to enter God’s Sanctuary!

We’ve all been wronged, our hearts beating the childhood words “that’s not fair” … they ring out and find no resting place; drowned in piles of paperwork and indifference and adding to the rising mountain of unavenged injustice. With all the inequality and suffering in the world, you would not be the first to ask God … why?

I have muttered the “not fair’s” to the clouds more than once. I remember being furious at seeing alcohol ‘take it’s toll’ on my mom. Another relapse! … later still scribbling “not fair” on paper cups waiting to identify her body …. “Why Why Why was nothing done?!”

On a broader scale — we cannot ignore innocent children and their families suffering through wars, famines, disease — which could for the most part have been prevented. One glance at the Geo-political climate today and we can’t ignore the injustice.

Oh Lord, hear my cry!!

Then I was confronted by something Jesus said, and saw how God cares deeply about the wrongs in this world and longs to make them right. “Blessed are they” Jesus said, “who hunger and thirst for what is right, for they will be filled.” I saw a moral God who created a moral universe: A God who sees everything, and not one wrong (not one!) escapes our good God’s eyes as he looks down on the hearts of men.

And this fact left me trembling. I saw the cries of Habakkuk who saw injustice all around and complained to God about it. I saw the cries of the psalmist who saw the upright fall and the wicked stand tall. Oh my God! I cried, the world is upside down! It’s all wrong.

And then came God’s invitation to enter His sanctuary, to fall to my knees!

One-day I hope to share more, but for now, may this song and these words encourage you to be like Habakkuk, who went to The Moral and Upright God of the Universe; to complain about all the immorality, and a world that is upside down.

Let us go to His Sanctuary, and as we find God’s heart full of a fierce love and a fierce wrath:

May we tremble at our own guilt,

and blood-stained hands,

That He can cleanse

Yes

May we know wrong from right,

And never stop the fight

For what is good, true, and upright

Yes

With heart contrite

and cleansed hands holding tight

To Mercy

Mercy

Clinging to the God

Who holds the earth In the span of His hands

And has made all nations from one man,

May we always cling, to

The God who decides the rise and fall

The boundaries of all;

For every-one to seek and find, that

He is near

He is not far, from blood and scar

Our God is here for all to seek

And Find, Selah

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