Man's Faith vs Wordly Experience
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The Truth of Scripture
The Truth of Scripture
I heard and my heart pounded,
my lips quivered at the sound;
decay crept into my bones,
and my legs trembled.
Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity
to come on the nation invading us.
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,
The Scriptures do not sugar coat things. Habakkuk looks at the brokenness around him and gives the true and real picture. Life is bleak today and there is not hope for a better tomorrow.
This is the great disconnect that we face everyday. In our hearts, we believe that the world around us is going to get better and better and yet we are dismayed because that same direction does not appear to be taken by the world around us.
We read Bible stories and we put ourselves as the victor. We are the Davids, Pauls, Moses of Scripture in our hearts, but in reality, we are the Israelites, the pharisees.
God desires our emotions. He does not shy away from reality.
The Maturity of Christ
The Maturity of Christ
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.
For the director of music. On my stringed instruments.
The song of Habakkuk ends in rejoicing and trust. He lays out the picture of a deer heading up a hillside. Picture of the mountain goats.
You study the Scriptures diligently because you think that in them you have eternal life. These are the very Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.
God has given us the foothold to remain steadfast always. Jesus is the foothold. Christian maturity is seen that in times of trial and tribulation we cling to Christ just as fervently as we cling to Him on the flat plains of the everyday.
Habakkuk in chapter 1 and 2 reveals that his heart is not to have the Lord, but to use the Lord for his own purposes. For many of us, this is the kind of maturity that we are sitting in. We have deluded ourselves to