Habakkuk's Boldness
From Habakkuk Introduction in The Message Remix by Eugene H. Peterson:
"Most prophets, most of the time, speak God's Word to us. They are preachers calling us to listen to God's words of judgement and salvation, confrontation and comfort. They face us with God as he is, not as we imagine him to be. Most prophets are in-your-face assertive, not given to tact, not diplomatic, as they insist that we pay attention to God. But Habakkuk speaks our word to God. He gives voice to our bewilderment, articulates our puzzled attempts to make sense of things, faces God with our disappointment with God. He insists that God pay attention to us, and he insists with a prophet's characteristic no-nonsense bluntness...But this prophet companion who stands at our side does something even more important: He waits and he listens. It is in his waiting and listening - which then turns into his praying - that he found himself inhabiting the large world of God's sovereignty. Only there did he eventually realize that the believing-in-God life, the steady-trusting-in-God life, is the full life, the only real life."
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