Waiting for justice to be established is a challenge to us. It confounds our sense of how God is supposed to act. When our prayers for right to prevail seem to go unanswered, we may become angry with God; we may doubt God’s goodness, God’s presence, or the very existence of God. But it is this seeming silence that assures us that God is not capricious. If God were to intervene at our command, the regularity of nature would disappear. Life would become a cartoonlike contest as each person waged a kind of prayer warfare for control of the power of God.
