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The prophet Habakkuk preached in Judah during the late 7th century BCE, a time of turmoil and conflict. Much of his book is like a private conversation with God. In these opening verses he asked God:" Why do you tolerate wrong?" Here we have one of God's answers, that God's sense of timing is different from ours. God is just, but that does not mean that things will always happen when or even how we expect. We have to trust that God will act at the right time and that his vision will in time be fulfilled.
The gospel passage from Luke contains a message of faith and a parable of faithfulness for discipleship. What disciples need more than anything else is a deep faith in the God of Jesus Christ. A mulberry tree is relatively large with an extensive root system and, normally speaking, would be difficult to uproot, but genuine faith can bring about quite unexpected things, even to uprooting this firmly established tree.
The readings call us to a greater faith in God even when the world seems to be in turmoil. Can we develop a trust that God's justice will prevail in his own time and can we transmit that sense of hope to those we meet?