September 02, 2020

BIBLE READING: Habakkuk 1:5-11
“Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.” Habakkuk 1:5

Last time, we looked at Habakkuk’s pleading to the Lord about the injustice around him. Today, we are going to look at God’s response to Habakkuk. Notice the Lord did not rebuke Habakkuk for his questions he had for Him. What is comforting is He actually welcomes Habakkuk’s questions and answers them. We should not feel bad to come to God with questions. God’s response was much different than Habakkuk expected. The Lord reveals His plan of using the Babylonians to conquer Judah. We see later that this was not the method Habakkuk was expecting from God. How often do we do this? We come to God with a need already having the best solution tucked back in our mind. When we get the answer, sometimes, the answer could be way different than the solution we had already conjured in our mind. God was trying to teach him a very important lesson. He wanted Habakkuk to focus on eternal not to have his focus on the immediate. At the time, Habakkuk was not sure if God was listening or even working, but all along God was working and making His plan complete. We have to be reminded of another prophet going through the same situation at the same time. God told Isaiah, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” Isaiah 55:8-9 Looking forward to Christ, this is a reminder of our sin. Both Judah and Babylon were full of sin and pride. We too were full of pride and deserving judgement. Instead God’s mercy held His judgement and His grace gave us eternal life! Today, we can be reminded that we can trust in God’s timing and His ways as He works in our life. Here is a verse that it is a great comfort of God’s plan and timing. Ephesians 3:20 “Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,”
David Fulp II