will be filled

But the earth will be filled

with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD,                               

as the waters cover the sea.                                              Hab. 2.14

Evil, iniquity and bloodshed feature further in Habakkuk’s writing. But this time it is God who is speaking, and His phrases are prefaced with the word ‘Alas’. God is evidently sounding a caution against those who go their own way, who seek after their own selfish ends and who don’t consider others and the trauma and heartbreak they cause in satisfying their own egos.

Then God makes a great and somewhat startling pronouncement with these words. He is the all powerful one. He is the only force that is truly to be reckoned with. God is supreme.

He will have His way. And what a way it is! I cannot conceive of God’s glory filling the earth. Yet this is His promise. And God is faithful. What He has promised, He will do. I am excited by this declaration. Will I see it in my time? I believe I’m seeing signs of it already. Whether or not I live to see the earth filled with God’s glory is immaterial. It is sufficient for me to know that it is coming and to live in what is here right now.

Lord God,

I rejoice in the promise of Your glory filling the earth. You have given me this present knowledge and I thank You.

I thank You also for what I see of Your glory already in this place. I ask for me. I join with the chorus writer and sing out, ‘Show me Your glory.’

Dear Lord, may I live daily in the glory that is You. I join with You in holy communion. My prayer is that we may become one – I in You and You in me. Let Your light shine brightly in me and through me. I’m Yours, all Yours.

Journey this day with me, in the fullness of Your glory, in Jesus’ Name I ask.               Amen.