For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the endit will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. – Habakkuk 2:3 If you’ve been waiting for a promise to be fulfilled, then don’t lose hope. Likewise, if you have been waiting to get somewhere in life but it’s just moving slowly, enjoy the moment. If you find yourself asking yourself and the people around you, “are we there yet?” You need to stop asking, you’ll know when you get there. These are our questions and complaints about life in general. In fact, we often lament ourselves for not taking shortcuts and abhor the slow moving pieces of our lives, don’t we? Then in retrospect, we realize we missed out on the journey because we were too busy trying to get somewhere we didn’t want to go. We’re not the only ones and that’s the good news. Here’s what God is saying to Habakkuk in this passage: stop being so arrogant, you’ll get and see what you need to when you’re ready for it, until then humble yourself in faith! The reason God says this to the prophet is because Habakkuk couldn’t wait for God to finally do something. The silence and apparent inaction was killing him. So the prophet decides to sit on top of a tower as watch the mayhem and destruction, but it never comes and so he complains to God. It is comforting to know prophets are as fallible as us average faith-mongers. I mean the real difference between them and us, sans the part where they wrote a book in the anthology that is the Bible, is how they perceived the visions awaiting them and faithfully and patiently waited for them to be fulfilled by God. What do we do when our visions and prayers are not immediately fulfilled? That’s right, we try to social engineer, manipulate and control. Everybody else does it, I know. But is it what God wants us to do? Rather, is it the right thing to do? It is a fine line between seizing something in the name of God and being bestowed something in the name of God and we have blurred the lines so often, we can’t tell the difference anymore. In fact, often times when we try engineering our own vision, that is the vision God gives us, for our own time and purposes when we are greedy for it, we find ourselves at odds with God’s plan and His will. This messes us up even more than if we were doing nothing and waiting for an opportunity to usher in our vision into reality. In regards to finding your vision in your reality, in the words of Barney Stinson, “It’ll be Leg-end… wait for it… dary!” Trust me, there is no better fulfillment than when God fulfills it fully.
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