Revive Thy Work

The Flame

Habakkuk prays this specific request, revive thy work in the midst of the years, worth noticing its timing precisely, not at the very beginning of some new endeavor, but in the midst, the actual, ongoing middle of a lengthy process, a genuine, needed prayer for renewal even, especially, in the middle of a long, sustained journey.

This is worth holding as genuine permission to pray this same prayer whenever your own sustained journey, in whatever midst of years you currently occupy, has grown tired, needing revival not because the original beginning was flawed, but because genuine, ongoing revival is worth actively, repeatedly seeking across a whole, extended life.

Notice in wrath remember mercy, Habakkuk’s honest acknowledgment of genuine, present difficulty, wrath genuinely present in his own historical moment, and yet, alongside this honest naming, genuine request for mercy remembered even within that difficulty, both held together in this same, honest prayer.

Whatever midst of years currently describes your own sustained journey, pray today Habakkuk’s own specific prayer. Revive thy work, in this actual middle, not merely at some future, easier beginning, and in whatever wrath or difficulty is genuinely present, ask for mercy remembered, the same honest, hopeful prayer this verse models directly.