Habakkuk 2:3-4: The Delay
First Sunday in Lent, March 6, 2022
In this Lenten season, we witness to the presence of Christ in our daily routine. In this time of introspection, we welcome the Spirit into the temple of our hearts. In this time of healing and re-making, we thank God for the gifts of grace and mercy and patience. In this time of transformation, we come to understand the essence of our Lenten delay.
If it delays, wait for it . . .
Like small children, we want all our woes and anxieties resolved within seconds of their borning; like small children we must learn that waiting in joyful anticipation brings the gift of wisdom.
It will surely come . . .
Like energetic teenagers, we easily slip into the thinking that the multiverse holds us at its center; like energetic teenagers we reluctantly admit that our way is not always God’s way.
It will not be late . . .
Like impatient adults, we ask the world to move at our singular command; like impatient adults we come to see that the common good is more valuable in God’s eyes than our individual desire.
The rash one has no integrity . . .
In our Lenten journey we come to understand – if we are open – that God is present in misery just as in joy.
But the just one, because of faith, will live . . .
In our Lenten passage we come to know – if we are open – that God’s delay is part of God’s plan.
As we move through this second full week of Lent, let us take all of our impatience and anxiety, all of our anger and frustration to the one who mends and heals all wounds. And let us – like Jesus – make a willing sacrifice of our waiting as we anticipate in joyful hope God’s fulfillment of our great delay.
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