The prophet Habakkuk wrestled with tough questions about the evil in he world around him. He struggled to understand how God was working. Habakkuk took his questions to the right place, to the Lord Himself. The answers He received were confusing at first, but He learned to trust God with his doubts and discovered how to worship in the darkness.
Hidden in the middle of this small book is one of the most transformative truths in all the Bible; "the righteous will live by faith."
Habakkuk 2:4 (ESV)
4 “Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
What is faith? (Biblical faith)
Faith is trusting and treasuring God above everything else. This is the faith of Habakkuk and this little phrase occurs 3 times in the New Testament. At each point, god uses it to direct us to a correct understanding of what our should be and how we are to live by faith in Jesus Christ.
Join us this week as we see how God met Habakkuk in the middle of his questions. God's answer to Habakkuk was to assure him that His plan was accomplishing much more than Habakkuk could see or believe. He offers us the same assurance when we take our questions to the Lord as well.