From Faithfulness to Faithfulness - Habakkuk

Standing Faithful

So where are you God? Ever asked that question? Do you have those times when you wonder just where God is in the midst of everything that is going on? Times when it is hard to just keep on keeping on.

Habakkuk is all about doing just that - keeping on keeping on. In fact, Habakkuk means "to embrace," to hug, to hang on to, to not let go.

Habakkuk begins with an expression of lament. How long must I call and you don't respond? Why do we have to keep dealing with this? But before long, God responds by telling him to keep hanging on - keep watching - don't give up - you won't believe what I am about to do!

Hanging on. Not giving up. Staying faithful to God, not so God will be faithful to us, but because we know that He already is. That is the message that pastor Jon explores with us in the book of Habakkuk. If you would like to listen to the message once again, or perhaps for the first time, you can access our sermon library by clicking here.

Habakkuk 1:1-5

1 The prophecy that Habakkuk the prophet received.

Habakkuk’s Complaint

2 How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen?

Or cry out to you, “Violence!" but you do not save?

3 Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing?

Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and conflict abounds.

4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails.

The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

The Lord’s Answer

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.

Habakkuk 3:17-19

Though the fig tree does not bud

and there are no grapes on the vines,

though the olive crop fails

and the fields produce no food,

though there are no sheep in the pen

and no cattle in the stalls,

yet I will rejoice in the Lord,

I will be joyful in God my Savior.

The Sovereign Lord is my strength;

he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,

he enables me to tread on the heights..