Utterly Amazing

Day 203: Habakkuk 1-3

What an interesting conversation between Habakkuk and the Lord. Habakkuk cries out to the Lord, begging for answers, wondering when he will ever respond. When will he save them? When will will he respond to the injustice, to the wrongdoing. God tells Habakkuk in 1:5,

Look at the nations and watch—
       and be utterly amazed.
       For I am going to do something in your days
       that you would not believe,
       even if you were told.

God is going to do something utterly amazing. And this something is actually a something. The Lord Jesus. He's coming to save these people. God knows it and tells his people to keep hope because this act is going to be so amazing that they wouldn't even believe it if they were told.

So Habakkuk decides what his respond is going to be. In spite of pain and suffering and the lack of justice occurring on earth, Habakkuk will trust in the Lord. He will rejoice in the Lord. The Lord is his strength, and he will be joyful in Him. What a hopeful message to all of us.

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Have you ever wondered where this first comes from? It's Habakkuk 2:20. 

The LORD is in his holy temple;
       let all the earth be silent before him.