Faith Amidst Dark Days

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 2:2-5  And the LORD answered me:
“Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it.
3. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie.
If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
4. “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith.
5. “Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest.
His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations and collects as his own all peoples.”