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DO YOU EVER QUESTION GOD?
SEP 19
Habakkuk 3
Memorise Habakkuk 3:18 "The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet"
DO YOU EVER QUESTION GOD?
Sometimes we look at injustices and evil around us and we have the tendency to respond like how Habakkuk did. He questioned God, not once but twice! He tried to tell God what to do, thinking that he knew how to rule the nations and could judge on behalf of God. Each time, he even had these undertones of a challenge that he made against God, where he took a self-righteous attitude in his cries against God. He accused God of inactivity, for he complained that he had cried for a long time, but God was not hearing, neither was he saving (Habakkuk 1:2). In his second accusation of God, he had an attitude of haughty expectation, that he would stand upon the watchtower and watch and wait for the Lord’s reply.
Habakkuk thought he was right, and that he had every right to seek an explanation from the Lord. However, when he finally understood God’s response in chapter 2, and saw things from God’s perspective, he came to his senses, and praised God for what He had done. If you examine Habakkuk 2 closely, you realize that God never really did answer his question directly, and neither is He obliged to answer our queries and accusations against Him. But what Habakkuk received was a call for him to be humble and allow God to carry out His wise plans, and that the just are simply to live by faith, trusting and believing that God knows what is best. The Lord ends the reply in chapter 2 with the simple statement "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him". Indeed that is what we should do when faced with the perplexities of life – to keep silent before God who reigns supreme from His holy temple.
Thus when Habakkuk finally came to his senses in chapter 3, he humbly accepted God’s will and asked for help and mercy for the people. He received a vision of the glory and power of God (3:3-15), where we see glimpses of God parting rivers, moving mountains, stopping the sun and moon and working other great interventions in helping His people. In response to all he saw, Habakkuk trembled. He finally acknowledged that indeed God is good, and he will rejoice in Him the God of his salvation. No matter what happens, he is assured that Lord is his strength, and that he can trust in God alone in all things. Dear teen, is that your confidence as well? Are we sometimes tempted to question God when things don’t go our way? Realize that God’s way is always the best, and we are simply to have faith.
Thought: God’s way is always the best way.
Prayer: Lord, help me to always trust in You, come what may.
Posted in Teens RPG
Habakkuk 3
Memorise Habakkuk 3:18 "The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet"
DO YOU EVER QUESTION GOD?
Sometimes we look at injustices and evil around us and we have the tendency to respond like how Habakkuk did. He questioned God, not once but twice! He tried to tell God what to do, thinking that he knew how to rule the nations and could judge on behalf of God. Each time, he even had these undertones of a challenge that he made against God, where he took a self-righteous attitude in his cries against God. He accused God of inactivity, for he complained that he had cried for a long time, but God was not hearing, neither was he saving (Habakkuk 1:2). In his second accusation of God, he had an attitude of haughty expectation, that he would stand upon the watchtower and watch and wait for the Lord’s reply.
Habakkuk thought he was right, and that he had every right to seek an explanation from the Lord. However, when he finally understood God’s response in chapter 2, and saw things from God’s perspective, he came to his senses, and praised God for what He had done. If you examine Habakkuk 2 closely, you realize that God never really did answer his question directly, and neither is He obliged to answer our queries and accusations against Him. But what Habakkuk received was a call for him to be humble and allow God to carry out His wise plans, and that the just are simply to live by faith, trusting and believing that God knows what is best. The Lord ends the reply in chapter 2 with the simple statement "The Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him". Indeed that is what we should do when faced with the perplexities of life – to keep silent before God who reigns supreme from His holy temple.
Thus when Habakkuk finally came to his senses in chapter 3, he humbly accepted God’s will and asked for help and mercy for the people. He received a vision of the glory and power of God (3:3-15), where we see glimpses of God parting rivers, moving mountains, stopping the sun and moon and working other great interventions in helping His people. In response to all he saw, Habakkuk trembled. He finally acknowledged that indeed God is good, and he will rejoice in Him the God of his salvation. No matter what happens, he is assured that Lord is his strength, and that he can trust in God alone in all things. Dear teen, is that your confidence as well? Are we sometimes tempted to question God when things don’t go our way? Realize that God’s way is always the best, and we are simply to have faith.
Thought: God’s way is always the best way.
Prayer: Lord, help me to always trust in You, come what may.
Posted in Teens RPG