SUNDAY, 4 JANUARY 2024
TEXT:
Habakkuk 2:2-3
2:
And then God answered: “Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big
block letters so that it can be read on the run”
3:
This vision-message is a witness pointing to what’s coming. It aches for the
coming – it can hardly wait! And it doesn’t lie. If it seems slow in coming,
wait. It’s on its way. It will come right on time.
(The
Message Version Holy Bible)
TOPIC:
FOR THE VISION IS YET FOR AN APPOINTED TIME (I)
In this year’s ECWA
Theme, the Lord intends for the message to be well understood. He clearly makes
this point in the instruction that the vision should be written down and a
herald run with it.
The message contained
in the vision or revelation concerns God’s judgment.
First, He will use the
Chaldeans or Babylonians to punish His people, Judah, for their sin.
Second, He will punish
the Chaldeans/Babylonians for their pride and arrogance. But there appears to
be a little contradiction in Habakkuk’s semantics. This is because the King
James Version’s rendition of Habakkuk 2:2 appears a bit confusing – “that he
may run that heareth it.”
This seems to say that
he who hears the Lord’s message would run way. The NIV renders it better: “that
a herald may run with it.” This connotes the idea that a messenger, like a
herald or town crier, would take the message and announce it with urgency (run).
Then in verse 3, there
appears to be the idea that the message could “tarry” – delay. The urgency of a
herald running with the message and the caution to wait for it, even if it
tarries/delays, do not contradict each other.
Rather, they are both
indicative of God being the owner of time. He decides what to do and when.
QUESTION:
Whose time is right, God’s or yours?
PRAYER:
You are the owner and regulator of time. Help me to learn this. Amen.
Remain
Blessed
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