Today’s reading surprised me. How often have I yearned for God to show Himself again. Habakkuk’s prayer must mean that it had been a long time since God had shown Himself on earth. Even though he was a prophet, he must have felt a certain sense of being left alone, of waiting to be given a full knowledge of God. Of course he didn’t know Christ like we do, didn’t have His continual abidance in the Holy Spirit.

Life on earth is only piece work. The whole we’ll know later on. Let us encourage each other that we are all basically in the same boat that even God’s prophets were in. Praise God for the day of His Son’s return!

Let us live so that we become ever more aware of God’s working on earth today and of the Comforter’s presence, so that we fan into flame the gift of God that is in us.

Which stories from the Bible will we think of to tell someone who needs to know God? Can we tell of Him with such poetic awe and grandeur?