“Look among the nations and watch---Be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. For I am raising up the Chaldeans...” Habakkuk 1:5-6a (NKJV)
Is it not strange to us that some 2500 years ago God moved on the heart of a man called Habakkuk and caused him to write words that would be completely relevant to us today? If it is strange to us, it is because we don’t fully comprehend Who God is. He is the Almighty, the Everlasting One, Yahweh, Jehovah, Elohim, I AM. He has always existed and shall ever so remain. He sees the end from the beginning and the beginning from the end. His knowledge and power are without measure, so too are His passion and compassion. His justice is without fail, and His wrath is the stuff of which hell itself is made. All man made things are as nothing in His sight, we humans would be insignificant as well; except for His desire that we trust and follow Him we are without hope.
So think it not strange that such a God could know in Habakkuk’s day of the state of affairs in our modern day world. Indeed, think it not strange that these calamities have come upon us. Today we are facing the same people that Habakkuk’s country faced, Babylon, but that is not so significant as the fact that we have also, like Israel, turned away from the same God. Like Habakkuk in 3:16 our bodies tremble, we quiver at the sound of prophecy, and there is rottenness in our bones from fear of our future. Rightly so, for we are in the midst of the fulfillment of the words spoken by Holy men of God, who spoke as they were moved by The Holy Spirit. God is not a man that He should lie, what He has declared will be fulfilled.
Choose you this day whom you will serve, make up your wandering minds, clear your thoughts, focus on God, for He alone is able to save us, He alone is able to bring us through the disasters ahead, put your faith and trust in Him, He will not fail you, He can not fail you, trust in Him and in Him alone for your peace. May the closing prayer of Habakkuk (3:17-19) be ours as well.
