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Habukkuk 3:2-6 Another prophet in prayer - Day 342

Good morning fellow saints in Christ,

Good old Habukkuk!  He goes from "how long O Lord" in chapter 1 to a prayer full of confidence in an answer in "the midst of years".  Encourages me to be faithful in prayer.

Blessings,

Jeff

A prayer for God to revive His work in the midst of the years. A prayer for God to do what He has promised to do. A prayer for God to remember mercy In His wrath. 

In other words, it is God's work and only He can revive it. The work that needs to be revived is Israel. Israel cannot revive itself.  God is rightfully full of wrath toward His work which has rejected Him and died. That wrath cannot be ignored or forgotten. God must have mercy if Israel is to be revived. Habakkuk doesn't know how or when it is going to happen, but he knows that wrath is not going away on its own.

He then describes the works that he has heard about in terms of seeing them. Telling God what He has done is a wonderful act of worship. The creature acknowledges what the Creator has done. The creature knows that if God had not done these things, there would be no salvation because Israel would not exist. 

In other words, history matters. Do I recognize what God has done to preserve the gospel over the centuries?  Do I understand the opposition to the gospel is spiritual, not flesh and blood?  As I speak this Sunday on Deliver us from evil, do I really believe evil is personal evil, not just misguided people?

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