DIRECTING our LIVES towards GOD’s VISION!
September
29 Bible Reading: Habakkuk Chapters 1-3
DIRECTING our LIVES towards GOD’s VISION!
Then the Lord answered me and said:
"Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads
it. 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”. (Habakkuk 2:2-3)
During the
days of prophet Habakkuk, public notices were engraved in large and clear
characters upon clay tablets and openly exhibited in the marketplace. The
writings were to be sufficiently large so that one running by could instantly
decipher the meaning. If the notice was a warning it would also cause the
reader to run quickly to prepare for what was coming.
Bible
scholars believe that the vision that Habakkuk was to write down was concerning
the fall of Babylon and the restoration of Judah (Daniel 5:30, 31). God guaranteed
that what was written would surely come to pass, which was an indispensable
test of a true prophet (Deut. 18:21, 22). In fact, the judgment on the
Babylonians was fulfilled through Cyrus in 539 B.C - long after Habakkuk’s vision.
A. J.
Pollock says that this verse also refers to the hope of the Christian. When verse 3 is
quoted in Hebrews 10:37, the “it”
(i.e., the vision) becomes “He”
(i.e., the Lord), who will surely come and will not tarry. So, in the New Testament context, this verse may
signify the hope of the Christian, which is “the
Rapture of the Church”.
Let us
clearly understand that God knows His plan and is working out all things according
to His purpose. We are responsible to study and proclaim His revelation while
awaiting its fulfillment. The assurance of fulfillment lies in God Himself, and
the fulfillment of the vision would not take any longer than God had planned.
Let us direct our lives towards the fulfillment of God vision!
“Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise: ‘for yet a little while, and He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.’ But we are not of those who draw back to perdition, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.” (Heb 10:35-39)
