Habakkuk
The prophecy of Habakkuk is a brief three chapters. Between the foreign names and nations, weathering the message of doom, it's easy to mentally check out and blow through this book. Just being honest. The prophets are not the easy ride of a narrative--within the chapters you have present situations, future predictions, visions, curses, messages from God, restoration, and poetry. It's not a genre I readily gravitate towards or feel solid in my understanding of. To me it feels like hiking a ridgeline in our North Carolina mountains once the trees come out. You are high up, but you don't always get the views. You spend a lot of time hiking through tall trees with the forest floor as your backdrop. Occasionally, the trees permit a view--that's it--they permit it. And then the view is a notable break, a highlight among the terrain. The prophets can be like that for me--reading, scanning, thinking, oops--what was that chapter about exactly? Re-read, rethink, then a