By Bob Barney
Jeremiah 12 
New Century Version (NCV)
Jeremiah’s First Complaint
12 Lord, when I bring my case to you,
you are always right.
But I want to ask you about the justice you give.
Why are evil people successful?
Why do dishonest people have such easy lives?
2 You have put the evil people here
like plants with strong roots.
They grow and produce fruit.
With their mouths they speak well of you,
but their hearts are really far away from you.
3 But you know my heart, Lord.
You see me and test my thoughts about you.
Drag the evil people away like sheep to be butchered.
Set them aside for the day of killing.
4 How much longer will the land stay dried up
and the grass in every field be dead?
The animals and birds in the land have died,
because the people are evil.
Yes, they are even saying,
“God does not see what happens to us.”
Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
By Bob Barney
It's not just you, even some of the greatest people who ever lived including men who spoke for and with God often wondered why God allowed things to go a certain way. I wonder the same thing. I think, if God wanted the world to know about The Plain Truth and about God's plans for the future, then the LORD would shower our cause with readers and big money. Billionaires would wake up some morning, miraculously see God's plan and send millions of dollars to those trying to get the word out. That may happen someday, but according to Jesus, it probably will not. Again, in the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament, the prophet named Habakkuk complains to God in the same way. Let's take a look at his plea to God.