Blessed Are The Agitated

I’m sure you’ve heard this verse before…

“Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.” (Habakkuk 2.2 NKJV)

Write the vision down.

Make the vision plain (clear, easy to understand)—so we can read it and run with it.

Sounds good, huh?

Inspirational.

Clear vision, something to run with. Ya gotta love it.

But I’d like to point something out: this verse follows some serious agitation.

In the previous chapter of Habakkuk, verses 1-4 are titled “Habakkuk’s Complaint.”

Another large chunk of that chapter gets the creative title “Habakkuk’s Second Complaint.”

Habakkuk was agitated.

He knew everything was not as it should be.

He lived in the tension of the kingdom that is and the kingdom that is yet to come.

He had a sense for what could be and what shouldn’t be…

And God gave him a vision, an answer, a strategy—something to run with.

My point: agitation is a gift.

The world will not be changed by the content or the complacent.

Agitation is the prelude to action.

We need more agitated leaders!

Blessed are the agitated.