This morning in our ILT meetings, as one of our KKI leaders was sharing a message from the Old Testament book of Habakkuk, we all had to smile at the part (in chapter 2 verse 2) where God told the prophet to write the vision clearly on tablets. We looked around the room and people were taking notes on their iPads, smartphones and other kinds of tablet computers. How amusing that God, thousands of years ago, told us to write the vision on “tablets” and now that’s exactly what we were doing as we spent time in His presence and listened to His guidance for our ministry with young people and families!
What we were writing - on those tablets, computers, and ordinary old fashioned notebooks - were our prayer impressions in response to two questions from verse 1 - where Habakkuk went up to the lookout tower and stationed himself on the city wall. Taking the tower as a symbol of looking into the distance and discerning what God has for us in the future, we were prayerfully waiting in silence and asking God, “What lies ahead for us? What should we be preparing for?” And, taking the city wall as a symbol of being able to look around us and see what needs attention in the here and now- in our own lives or in our ministry - we were asking God, “What warnings do you want to give us? What do we need to repair or protect in order to be ready for the things that are on your heart for us in the future?”
Those are the things we were writing in our notebooks and on our computers. What about you? What is God saying to you about the rest of 2014, or about the coming five years? And what do you need to do or deal with personally in order to be ready and equipped for the things that lie ahead?
