How to get God’s ears to wiggle once more
Habakkuk 1:2
O Lord, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear? Even cry out to You,"Violence!" And You will not save. NKJV T
So, Habakkuk is tired of his desperate and repetitious double barreled prayer for mercy and deliverance. However, there are two further parts to his three sectioned open question to God, that second part being: “O Lord, how long shall I cry, And You will not hear.”
Now, we know that God knows and hears all things, but this ‘not hearing’ here, is in fact a ‘not responding to calls for mercy.’ Yes, it is not only a recognition of the un-cupped nature God’s right hand from His once leaning over head, but a testimony of the erecting of the high gates of indignation around the once warm entrance to the ever loving wiggling of the rabbit ears of God. Interestingly, these high barred gates of indignation now set up around the ears of God, have all been cast in the forges of their own rebellion and UPS shipped to heaven on the back of a ‘poo-brown’ truck called ‘arrogance.’ The new covenant good news is this: that ‘Repentance’, that armored car of God’s grace in Christ Jesus, can bust open those gates of God’s indignation forever!
So, if you are groping in a noon day discomfort: repent of your sin.
If you find yourself itching in uncomfortable situations: Repent of your sin.
If the scabies of your disease is being picked at and pointed at by mocking onlookers: Repent of your sin.
If there is a shudder of coming judgment reverberating through your being: Repent of your sin.
If the cold loneliness of your situation is drawing you at last to the warmth of God’s midnight fire: Repent of your sin.
If you have woken up naked in a pig trough tonight: Repent of your sin.
If the silence of heaven is making the ears of your heart twitch and wiggle like a nervous rabbit, yes, if you are ungodly this day AND YOU KNOW IT, then my friend, there is hope! Repent of your sin.
Listen:- For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. Romans 5:6-9 NKJV
Pray: - Turn up the freezer Lord. Make it cold outside Your Kingdom. Make the darkness grip our being and press us tight like the icy pressured depths of the black ocean floor. Open our ears to the howl of the circling wolves and fill us with a drawing fear, that all who are lost would be pulled and pushed to the welcoming orange glow of the courtyard fires of Your midnight love. Have mercy on us O God, have mercy on us before our self made gates surrounding Your fiery indignation are closed forever to those outside. Amen and let it be so.
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