Habakkuk 3:11-12 | The Sun and Moon Stood Still

Formation to Transformation | A Worship Devotional · Oct 5, 2026 · 4m

The sun has never once waited for anybody. A harvest that needed one more day, a funeral that ran long, a prayer that was almost finished. It goes down when it goes down anyway. Then Habakkuk remembers a day it did not.

Most readers hear Joshua at Gibeon in the first line, the day held open so that a thing God had started could be finished before dark. The waiting you have been doing has felt like the clock stopped on you, and the verse does not say what your stopped clock is for, only who Habakkuk remembered when his felt that way. Then verse twelve. You threshed the nations in anger. That…