Moving from Protest to Praise

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 3:16-19  I hear, and my body trembles; my lips quiver at the sound;  rottenness enters into my bones; my legs tremble beneath me.  Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines,  the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food,  the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,
 yet I will rejoice in the LORD; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.  GOD, the Lord, is my strength;
  he makes my feet like the deer's; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.