What Profit is an Idol When Its Maker Has Shaped It?

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 2:15-20  “Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink— you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! 16 You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! The cup in the Lord's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory! 17 The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them. 18 “What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, a metal image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols! 19 Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! Can this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it. 20 But the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”