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“Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told”

Habakkuk prophesied in a time when things were going from bad to worse. The Assyrians, a cruel and ruthless empire, were on their way out and the Babylonians were on their way in. Habakkuk probably could not remember a moment in his life that was not filled with the suffering of God’s covenant people. Through his entire prophetic ministry, he never saw it come to an end. 

Faithfully what!? Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you. From Abraham and Job to David and the prophets there are many examples in the Bible for questioning God. It is not a sin to bring our questions before God in prayer. We may not think it is right so we avoid this action. However, we can also proceed with this action in a manner that is sinful and irreverent. 

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In chapter one, Habakkuk questions the Lord (vv. 2-4, 12-17). He questions the Lord by recalling the nature and character of God revealed to Him in Scripture. The Lord’s justice, righteousness, truth, His everlasting nature, holiness, sovereignty, and purity are used to bring faithful questions before the Lord.

You, no doubt, have questions. Don’t go to google for an answer. Don’t wait for some politician to tell you what to do. Go to the Lord, the source of life, truth, wisdom, and goodness. The Lord wants to hear your questions in this difficult time of a global pandemic. Recall His nature, character, and works, and ask Him the questions that haunt your mind and heart.

Most of us busy ourselves with what we think God wants us to be doing. Habakkuk brings his questions before the Lord thinking that he will receive an answer concerning what he and the nation should do next. Then God answers Habakkuk’s questions. In chapter 2, God simply commands Habakkuk and the people to wait (2:3). 

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What if the command that the Lord is giving us the most in this season is the thing that we are doing the least? Waiting is not simply doing nothing. Waiting is doing something. It is waiting. It is a mental exercise rather than a physical one. Habakkuk shows us what faithful waiting looks like as he recalls the works of the Lord in 3:1-16. In his waiting, Habakkuk’s trust in the Lord and knowledge of the Lord deepens. This is an incredible fruit of waiting on the Lord.

For many reasons, we are terrible at waiting. If our Amazon Prime package takes longer than two days to arrive, we are up in arms. Waiting on the Lord is no different. In fact, no one knows this better than God. In chapter 2, He states to “make it plain” (v. 2) so that we will get it. 

Why is Habakkuk in the Bible? It could seem that this book is pretty niche. It is not there because we wait and trust the Lord begrudgingly. It is there because we don’t wait on the Lord. We don’t trust Him as we ought in these times. We need Habakkuk to remind us of our tendency to wander from the Lord. We need Habakkuk to remind us of our sin.

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In Habakkuk’s time, it was easier to go with the flow of the worship of gods in the empires around them than to worship the One True God. God’s people were neck-deep in the worship of other gods. Habakkuk 2:6-20 reminds the people that these idols days are numbered for destruction. 

In our day, not only do we stink at waiting on the Lord, but we then run to lesser gods to fill the void. We run to these gods because they will never say “wait.” They deliver immediate gratification. Their end is destruction. We need to be reminded of these truths. Habakkuk provides us with those reminders.

The gospel in Habakkuk? Yep! Habakkuk 3:13, 17-19, give us the gospel of God’s deliverance of His covenant people. Habakkuk reminds us that the more opportunities we get, the more we choose us and not God. Yet this does not stop God’s pursuit of His “anointed” (3:13). In the midst of judgment, destruction, war, defeat, and death, God reminds us of His redemptive plan. What made the nations of Judah worthy of rescue? Nothing. What distinguished them from the pagan nations around them? Nothing. Except for God’s gracious choice and His divine forbearance that He passed over these sins of the people and placed them on His Son (Romans 3:23-26). 

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Habakkuk is recalling God’s gracious covenant with himself at the end of the book. Habakkuk knows that without this covenant, this promise, he and the people are without hope. Nothing that he or the people can do could merit favor with the Holy One. Yet he knows and is known by Him. Habakkuk rejoices in song over the God of this glorious salvation (3:18).

 is the Collegiate Network Coordinator for the Utah/Idaho Southern Baptist Convention. He has served in collegiate ministry for 11 years. Ben has a M.A. in Christian Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Ben and his wife, Lindsey, live in Provo, UT with their two daughters, Ella and Clara.These pieces of presumed Christian “wisdom” can sound biblical on the surface, but a closer look at Scripture will show you that some of them are actually far from the truth of God’s Word. 

I’m sure you’ve heard it and possibly even said it to encourage someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and get it done. But this verse is not in the Bible. And its premise is not true. To the contrary, God helps those who admit they

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Scripture is loaded with examples of God calling weak, humble people who would have been inadequate for the Lord’s work without His enabling strength. Scripture says that Christ’s power is made perfect in our weakness. And Paul states

“I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong

If God helped those who helped themselves, that verse would read: “Show yourself capable and God will come along and help.” Many times those of us who believe we can help ourselves don’t feel we need God and therefore, we don’t rely on Him. God wants us to admit we’re helpless so we can start depending on His strength to get us through situations. That is faith. 

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I think we’ve all said this at one time or another, primarily to comfort another believer or even an unbeliever who is struggling with something or fearful that something bad might happen. But this verse does not exist. And this statement doesn’t hold true. God will often give us more than we can handle so that we will depend on Him to carry the burden for us. 

(NKJV), and Matthew 11:28-30 tells us to come to Him when we are weary and take His yoke upon us so we can bear a load that is too heavy to lift ourselves. 

I believe we get the idea that God won’t give us more than we can bear from 1 Corinthians 10:13 which tells us

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“No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”

Beyond what we are able to resist. But He will allow us to struggle beyond our capacity in other aspects of life so we understand what it means to surrender and allow Him to carry the burden for us. 

Here’s another one that sounds true.  And although God is the Creator of all, He is not the father of all. Romans 8:9 clearly tells us

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God adopts us through our surrender to Christ Jesus. Therefore, a more accurate saying is: We are all God’s creation, but we are not all God’s children.

As I was discipling a young believer, I asked her if she had ever said “the sinner’s prayer.” She read it in the discipleship material we had in front of us and then asked me where it was found in the Bible. “Well, it’s not. It’s implied, ” I said. 

This is a tough one for us because we want to point to something in the Bible that someone needs to actually say in order to be saved. However, Romans 10:9-10 says

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“if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;  for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.”

This might be one of the most quoted sayings of all time when it comes to God.  The only problem is that it isn’t a verse in the Bible.

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