Over the past week, I've been meditating on a verse from the Old Testament book of Habakkuk which offers a promise. An amazing promise. It's a promise to consider when we're especially world-weary and discouraged, a promise to cling to when everything feels profoundly broken and desperate.
Habakkuk 2:14 states this: For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.
Just think: one day the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. Even when people rail against the Lord, even when wickedness seems to prevail, even when foundations are shaken and the world calls what is right wrong and what is wrong right, even when our hearts break, we who have put our hope in Jesus Christ know that He is faithful. He is good. He is kind and patient, not wanting any to perish but for all to come to repentance. His ultimate desire, put in motion the moment when sin separated God and man, was to fulfill the world's greatest rescue mission where He died in our places so we would not have to live without Him.
It's an exchange that makes no sense, yet it's the foundation of the Gospel: Christ died once for all, then He rose again, conquering sin and the grave. When we accept this, and when we confess with our mouths that Jesus is Lord and believe in our hearts that God raised him from the dead, we are saved. He took our sin, and we receive His righteousness. We are forgiven.
We can choose to believe Jesus, and our lives — and our eternity — will never be the same.
One day, the earth will be absolutely filled with this knowledge as waters cover the sea. Everyone will see the Lord as He is. They all will know, and every knee will bow.
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