Habakkuk brought his complaints to God and he waited for God to answer.

He knew God would reply and give him an answer.

His relationship with God was strong, pure and authentic.

Habakkuk held nothing back.

He told God his frustrations and wanted an answer as to why things were happening, as they did not seem right to him.

God knows what he is doing and we are so sure we know what is best for us at all times.

Yet through our pain, suffering, and striving, God is doing bigger, better, and greater things beyond all measure.

Do we love you only when we receive what we want?
Can we love you if things don’t go our way?

Our love for you is circumstantial if we only choose to be OK when things are going our way.

But your love is consistent.
You say to draw near to you and you draw near to us.
How often do we draw near?

When we draw away, we feel so far away.

It shouldn’t take falling into sin to realize that we are not so in love with you as we used to be.

It shouldn’t take feeling so broken to realize we forgot our first love.

It should feel as if your whole world is falling apart because you haven’t spoken to your first love in over a week.

It should feel so uncomfortable, knowing that you’ve looked to other things to be your comfort.

What if we were in the habit of making sure our love for you never grows dim?

What if our love for you is always strong, always bright, always full of enthusiasm, never boring, never mundane?

Could we be stronger Christians that are full of peace, joy, and wonder all the time?

In that case, would it be easier to love you unconditionally without conditions ?

Or are conditions so big that we don’t think we could love you if you don’t do what you have promised in our timeframe and our timeline.

Your love is unconditional always, no matter what condition we are in.

If only we could love you the same.

Then we would not be in this condition.