The Weighty Whisper of Waiting
From Habakkuk 2 – 1 I will stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
The Just Live by Faith
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.
4 “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.
“But what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing," whispers Megan McKenna conspiratorially in The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture, " is a new kind of politics, the politics of resistance. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”
Habakkuk 2 is in on the same insurgent logic. What posture prepares a message that can be read by a people or a culture on the run? Whether the runner of verse three is the frantic culture or the prophet who will, by divine call, eventually run to keep up, the preparation is that which McKenna would recognize. Watch. Tarry. Even the prophet's writing would be slow rather than scrawled.
As we live by faith and trust that God can melt mountains in an instant if He chooses, His own can have the audacity to slow down before Him. We might, by His grace, actually be observed in the waiting and so stand out that the huffing and puffing culture starts to ask questions. A frantic query as to what we are waiting for might be the opportunity to give account for the hope that is within us.
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
The Just Live by Faith
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the vision
And make it plain on tablets,
That he may run who reads it.
3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.
4 “Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.
“But what we need to own and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing," whispers Megan McKenna conspiratorially in The New Stations of the Cross: The Way of the Cross According to Scripture, " is a new kind of politics, the politics of resistance. The politics of slowing things down. In the present circumstances, I'd say the only thing worth globalizing is dissent.”
Habakkuk 2 is in on the same insurgent logic. What posture prepares a message that can be read by a people or a culture on the run? Whether the runner of verse three is the frantic culture or the prophet who will, by divine call, eventually run to keep up, the preparation is that which McKenna would recognize. Watch. Tarry. Even the prophet's writing would be slow rather than scrawled.
As we live by faith and trust that God can melt mountains in an instant if He chooses, His own can have the audacity to slow down before Him. We might, by His grace, actually be observed in the waiting and so stand out that the huffing and puffing culture starts to ask questions. A frantic query as to what we are waiting for might be the opportunity to give account for the hope that is within us.
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