Habakkuk’s Oracle [God Sees His People Suffering; He Will Respond to Wickedness]

Of all the prophets of the old covenant, perhaps none today suffers from more neglect in relation to his importance for the New Testament than Habakkuk...

Habakkuk served God, noting clearly when His law was broken and His justice perverted...

Habakkuk complains about Jehoiakim’s evil and the complicity of Judah’s ruling class in today’s passage. His complaints are heart-wrenching, flowing from the lips of one who saw the wicked prospering and wondered if perhaps the Lord had forgotten His righteous servants...

When we see the wicked prospering and God’s people suffering, we may think the Lord is too slow in responding to the evil we are enduring. Yet God always works in His time, and He sometimes works in ways we do not expect. We can be sure that God has not forgotten us when He seems slow to respond, and we can know that even if He does the unexpected, it is for His glory and our good...

Something VERY important to remember as these dark days of perversion and evil descend, self-inflicted, upon our once great nation.

Never lose faith. He is with us. He will never leave us, even to the end of the age.

Also interesting to note that since God is timeless, what would seem like a lifetime of suffering for us is infinitely minimal to Him. He knows all that has come to pass and all that will come to pass. God can never leave you in this life. To do so would be logically inconsistent with His nature. He is everywhere.

He has seen the rise and fall of humanity’s most innovative and most backward civilizations. He has seen the strongest empires, the most hedonistic countries, the most barbaric tribes. He has seen liberty, and He has seen tyranny. He has seen his faithful prosper and flourish before they crash and burn.
But do not despair. All is reasoned. We have made our own fate through our own choices in this world. This is not some cosmological chaos, it is simply the painful but fleeting test of our conviction.
Draw close to God, strengthen your will, and pray for guidance. May the Holy Spirit move you to the greatest ends a man can achieve. Not in wealth, pleasure, status or even minor comfort in this life, but in the eternity beyond.

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