From Complain to Cheer

Verse: 

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Habakkuk 1:2 (ESV)

Are you not from everlasting, O Lord my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment, and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof. Habakkuk 1:12 (ESV)

I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:1-4 (ESV)

Message:

Even like Habakkuk we might be asking the same two questions: Will you not? Are you not?

Looking at the atrocities happening around us; in our workplaces, in our neighbourhood, in our nation & in the world, many a times we might have felt totally wearied. And we start complaining. Blaming our boss, co-workers, subordinates, the neighbours, the government and at last God Himself!

Will you not act at this time God? Are you not seeing what’s happening? Are you not the Righteous One?

As Habakkuk realized we need to come in terms with the truth that the solution to all these is not complaining to God, but listening from God. Often we are pre-occupied with the problem that we fail to listen from God. When we take all these complaints to him and listen from Him, we become God’s answer!

The Lord says that whatever He said will come to pass in its appointed time. In those days the greatest medium of mass communication was writing in tablets. So the Lord told Habakkuk to write the vision/revelation in the tablet. But we can use all modern mediums in doing so – blogs, social networking sites, websites, phone calls, SMS, posters, brochures, TV/Radio, etc. But what are we going to write or propagate? Not complaints! But answers! Disseminate hope & God’s truth to various issues that we read & see everyday; so that someone somewhere may be inspired to act upon it. The Lord wants you & me to be His voice to this world! So that He might do what He intends in His time. But, we need Faith! The just shall live by faith.

Let us not delay! Let us not complain! Let us listen from God as we see all the evil! Let us propagate His ways & instil hope!

May the Lord turn our complains to cheer!

Prayer:

Lord I was a complainer. I have now understood that I can be the answer to the evil around me, if I listen from You! Lord, use me as Your voice that will kindle hope in this & the coming generation & nations! Give me the faith that I can change the world with Your strength. Give me the faith to try & try & try and not be dismayed, but to go on & on & on until change happens!