The Frozen Frontiersman

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Do you ever go before God and feel as though He is an old man that either can’t hear you or doesn’t want to talk?  Folks in the Bible felt the same way.  David, for one, would ask the Lord to “wake up” and “do something.”  Here, in Habby 1, the prophet takes that usual tone that we take when we feel God isn’t paying attention–”HEY!  DO YOU SEE WHAT”S GOING ON DOWN HERE!”  ”How long shall I cry and You will not hear?”  Well, if we waited until the emotional moment passed by and we settled ourselves on what we know to be true about God, we could then rely on His sovereignty (the fact that He is in control) and omnipotence.  

This is yet another reason why we have to fall back on something solid; something that doesn’t waiver or crumble under duress.  God knows stuff we don’t know–DUH!  Seriously, as a little kid at church camp taught me, GOD IS SMART.  And He is.  

This is funny because God basically responds to Habby with a hey-dude-I-know-something-you-don’t comment.  ”Look among the heathen nations and watch–Be utterly astounded!  For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe though it were told you.”  I want to be utterly astounded.  That sounds cool.  God’s outta the box baby!  Habakkuk had no clue that God was planning on using the Chaldeans to rebuke the nation of Israel.  And maybe if he did, he wouldn’t have come to the Lord in such a huff.  Hindsight is 20/20 guess.

So, next time the Lord sounds peculiarly silent, watch out, lift your eyes and expect something surprisingly divine to come through the back door.  Or maybe the side door or trap door or the window.  We need to be on our toes young Jedi.

Amen

FF