The Incredible

UV 826/10,000 The Incredible “ Look at the nations and watch- and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe even if you were told.” Habakuk 1 v 5 Last afternoon in a time of prayer, the Lord spoke through this amazing verse. The uniqueness of God’s Word is that the verse has a specific meaning and application in your individual and familial life and mine. At the same time, it has a specific meaning and application in a global context. The Lord said, “ I am a Zoologist, a Biologist and a Botanist. As a zoologist, I am the Lion of Judah who sent the evil and menacing lion satan that is intent on pouncing on you scurrying for cover. As a biologist, I could tell Peter who told me that he had no money on him to pay the tax, to step into the water and to catch a fish that carried a gold coin in it. As a botanist, I will let you flourish like an olive tree for when the whole earth and all its trees were covered with the waters in Noah’s time, I saw that the olive tree survived from which a bird brought back a leaf to Noah.” As the warp and weft of time’s loom weaves on, the Lord is silently working behind the scenes. It might appear to our eyes that the law is paralysed and that justice never prevails, that honesty no longer pays even though the righteous pray, that justice is perverted and so much destruction and violence is afoot among the nations of the world, that guilty men are ruling the roost whose own strength is their god. While all this appears to be happening and true in our time as in Habakuk the prophet’s time, the Lord’s will and His truth will prevail. He promises to do something in our lifetime that we would not believe if we were told. If we were told, we would roll and laugh like Abraham or bend and conceal our laugh like Sarah when they were promised an heir in their old age. Our role is to watch and pray for the nations and to report back to the Lord all that we see like the dove that brought back the ‘olive leaf report’ to Noah. As He feeds us, we need to give Him feedback. He delights in it even as Noah delighted in seeing the faithful dove return unlike the raven that never returned to its master’s hand. Today, multitudes are like the raven and multitudes still are like the dove. This uni-verse instils in us the child-like wonder at what mystery is in store for us in the rest of our days and what mystery is in store for the world at large. That sense of wonder and anticipation will grow in us as we await the appointed time when the revelation will be fulfilled. It will not prove false. Though it linger, we must wait for it. It will certainly come and will not delay beyond God’s own determined time. He who is the indescribable is going to do the incredible. Meanwhile we worship Him as an incredible and amazing Zoologist, Biologist and Botanist. Such an awesome revelation! Prateep v Philip