For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
The book of Habakkuk begins with a prayer. One commentary calls it a complaint. “Habakkuk's Complaint”
Habakkuk 1:2-4 (KJV)
O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
I believe we need a lot more of this sort of complaining! We need a lot more crying out to the Lord, “How long?”
But then the passage goes directly into an answer. There is a judgment so swift, so terrible, that the description is rife with hyperbole. The judgment is not intended to last forever. It is a step toward final and eternal redemption. In the meantime, “the just shall live by his faith.” The reason? “The vision is yet for an appointed time,” the Bible says. “Though it tarry…it will not tarry.”
In our world, it feels like the plan of God is prolonged, procrastinating, maybe not happening. Those without faith can argue by observation (their false form of science) that the message of the Bible is ineffectual. But this is all an illusion. It’s only that we don’t see through the same lens of truth God does. Our mortal corruption, our sin condition, has darkened our view. Faith allows us to see that we do not see, but it does not allow us to see what we do not see.
By faith we, “wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.”
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How Long?: A Necessary Prayer
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