Every Day [Devotional from Habakkuk]

Devotions ChopChop ^ | March 6, 2009 | Dave Miller (tenger)

[tenger]

O LORD, are you not from everlasting? My God, my Holy One, we will not die. O LORD, you have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, you have ordained them to punish. Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong. Why then do you tolerate the treacherous? Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves? Habakkuk 1:12-13

God's seen and heard it all. That's perhaps the understatement of the year. He was from the Beginning and He'll be in the End. Infinite. Everlasting. Unending. Without respect for days or people or institutions. They will come and go but God will remain.

He formed the mountains and the valleys and all creatures living in them. He holds the oceans in the palm of his hand. The stars are like grains of sand and he created them too. He knows exactly what microbes and microscopic germs are inside your body. Of course we know that He did all of that.

This snapshot in history called "now" will go away. Tomorrow will come and go. God remains. Nations will rise and fall. God remains. If we end up destroying the planet through war or disease, God will remain.

Every day we're alive, we have an opportunity to praise this God.

[kindred]

IS 44:1 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:
IS 44:2 Thus saith the LORD that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
IS 44:3 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
IS 44:4 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.
IS 44:5 One shall say, I am the LORD’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
IS 44:6 Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
IS 44:7 And who, as I, shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and the things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto them.
IS 44:8 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.