Can the Center Hold?

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 2:6-14 Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, “Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own— for how long?— and loads himself with pledges!” 7 Will not your debtors suddenly arise, and those awake who will make you tremble? Then you will be spoil for them. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them. 9 “Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm! 10 You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; you have forfeited your life. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, and the beam from the woodwork respond. 12 “Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing? 14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.