Preached by Dr. Greg Sloop at the Kannapolis Church of God in the Sunday AM service on February 2, 2025.
Habakkuk, like all of us, was living “between the times,” between the promise and the fulfillment. Habakkuk was to wait in faith for God to act. He was assured that judgment on evil would surely come. It will not be late (v 3). But Habakkuk was not to wait with folded hands and bated breath for all this to happen. He was to live a life of faithfulness (v 4). The evil one is puffed up with pride and he will fall (vv 4, 5), but the righteous will live by being faithful to his covenant with God. Raymond Calkins said, “The summons is from speculation to action, from questioning to conduct, from brooding to duty. God is attending to His business, and Habakkuk must attend to his. Running the universe is not his task. That burden belongs to God. But Habakkuk has his task, and let him faithfully perform it. Thus he will live in moral sincerity and in moral security that righteous living brings in the midst of external calamities. That is the way for a righteous man to live in an evil world” (The Modern Message of the Minor Prophets [New York: Harper and Row, 1947] 97).
Ralph L. Smith, Micah–Malachi, vol. 32, Word Biblical Commentary (Dallas: Word, Incorporated, 1984), 107.
Listening: I will stand my watch to see what He will say
Remembering: Write the Vision
Knowing: Make It Plain
Sharing: That He May Run Who Reads It
Waiting: Though it Tarries, Wait for It, Because It Will Surely Come
Live: The Just Shall Live by His Faith
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