The beauty of Habakkuk, is that each one of us can relate to him. We lament situations where we feel hard done by, and perceptively God seems to be absent or simply unmoved by our plight or plea.

"Where is God when life isn’t like I imagined?" "How can I live in times when dark days might be around for decades?" Name it and claim it theologies don’t work, needless to say are unbiblical; but then again hard work and perseverance don’t necessarily guarantee a better day either. Habakkuk shows us in the midst of dark days how to go from 'why to worship', from 'protest to praise'.

Habakkuk 1:1-11 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.
O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear?
Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save?
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth.
For the wicked surround the righteous; so justice goes forth perverted.
“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told.
For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own.
They are dreaded and fearsome; their justice and dignity go forth from themselves.
Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves;
their horsemen press proudly on.
Their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.
They all come for violence, all their faces forward.
They gather captives like sand.
At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh.
They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.
Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, guilty men, whose own might is their god!”