Habakkuk

For this week's sermon blog I thought I would share a few words on what a preacher said about Habakkuk 2 in his sermon at a church I was visiting last week...

In a world filled with endless notifications and constant demands, where do you find your place to stop and listen for God's reply? Habakkuk was a man who had big questions to ask of God. He stood, not just complaining to God, but waiting and listening.

How often do we fire off our thoughts to God, only to rush onto the next thing? Do we ever take the time to truly pause to listen for his reply? Habakkuk teaches us to stop, to position ourselves like a watchman, and to make space for the possibility that God might want to speak to us. This isn't about physical towers, but about carving out moments in our everyday lives where the volume of everything else drops, and his voice has room to be heard.

The church I visited had sensed God saying that he was going to breathe on them, on their church, and on their town – to bring life to dry places. The preacher went onto say that they were in waiting - holding on to that promise, not yet fulfilled, waiting for the first signs of his breath. 

The challenge in this long wait is learning to live by faith, holding our position even when everything in us wants to abandon the post. It’s about believing that if God has spoken, then his promise will arise when he wants it to.

The long wait isn't wasted time; it's a refining time. It's where God works on us before he works through us. Think of the disciples waiting for the Holy Spirit - they praised, worshipped, and stayed together. That churches call in this season, and perhaps ours, is the same: to keep climbing the watchtower in prayer and worship, making space for God to move. When his breath comes, may we be found on the wall, ready to feel it on our faces, still enough to know it is him.