Week 34 Habakkuk 2
This vision is for a future time…If it seems slow in coming, wait patiently…It will not be delayed.
I can’t say for sure but my suspicion is that there are more people who think that the Lord’s timing is slightly skewed than there are people who think his timing is exactly on schedule.
I think about drawing two timelines (the lifespan lines of two guys). Short Guy’s line is roughly 70-years. Long Guy’s line is – let’s just make it – a billion years. (I decide not to draw the lines. If they were to scale I’d need a page about 10,000 kilometres long.)
There’s no doubt that Short Guy & Long Guy will have different approaches & attitudes to time & to getting things done. Short Guy’s got 70 years – which is independently long but comparatively short when contrasted with a billion. So for instance Short Guy isn’t going to wait a hundred years to finish school or get a job or get married or travel to Tahiti. With Long Guy it’s quite a bit different – flying across the Pacific in 2524 might be perfect timing for him.
Mentally & emotionally Short Guy would likely be impatient with Long Guy. Think he’s lackadaisical. Apathetic. Not on-the-ball. Indifferent. Too easy-going. Listless.
Short Guy would always be a hurry-up mode compared to Long Guy. So when he reads that the plan will not be delayed he’s thinking maybe one-to-five years.
But on Long Guy’s calendar? Maybe a thousand.
Note: quote from Habakkuk 2:3 (NLT)