Habakkuk cries out his complaint into the silence of God and
wonders “what’s the point?” I wonder the same thing when evil events paint a
cruel caricature of the human race. But the truth is I know more decent people than the
depraved ones that dominate the news and even though good people do not make
the headlines they make the world a better place simply by being in it. Even so
Habakkuk’s complaint is that God is not doing enough to see that the wicked are
diminished and the decent flourish. God’s response is to give Habakkuk
something to do. “Write a vision on tablets a runner can see.” Our “make a sign
a runner can see” means we speak God’s “wait and see” in the face of all that
troubles us and put all our effort and energy into transforming this world to look
more like the world God promises is coming. In that way we act out the hope
that God’s deliverance does not delay whenever decent people act decently.
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