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 is not delayed whenever decent people
act decently.
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