Habakkuk 1:14-15 | No Ruler Over Them

You've had a week where you weren't a person to anybody. You were a slot that got filled.

The worst four words in Habakkuk 1:14 are not about the hook. They're no ruler over them. Fish don't have anybody. There's no shepherd who knows this particular one, who would notice it went missing, who would go looking. A shepherd counts; that's the job. Nobody counts fish, you weigh them. So when Habakkuk says God made men like the fish of the sea, he isn't saying people get hurt. He's saying people get processed, by something with no category for them as people. And then the line that stops you: therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Anchored in Habakkuk 1:14-15. Part of The Waiting Season, a walk through the three chapters of Habakkuk.