Are You Not From Everlasting, My Holy One?

The beauty of Habakkuk, is that each one of us can relate to him... lamenting situations where we can feel hard done by… perceptively God seems to be absent or simply unmoved by our plight or plea.

Where is God when life isn’t like I imagined? How can I live in times when dark days might be around for decades? Name it and claim it theologies don’t work, needless to say are unbiblical; but then again hard work and perseverance don’t guarantee a better day necessarily either. Habakkuk shows us in the midst of dark days to go from why to worship, from protest to praise.

Habakkuk 1:12 - 2:1  Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment,
and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.
You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong, why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he?
You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.
He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them out with his net;
he gathers them in his dragnet; so he rejoices and is glad.
Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet;
for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich.
Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?
I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower,
and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.